Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite its recent disappointments the Crimson-jerseyed players went to New Haven with all the confidence in the world. The result was a smashing 17 to 0 victory over the Elis, the first Harvard triumph since 1922. The work of Captain A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaccia '29, all season the backbone of the Horween offense, was the outstanding feature of the game. But their brilliance was made possible by a marvellous line which tore the Blue to shreds and payed the way for Harvard's return to football prestige...
...games were lost by more than a one goal margin, and the final contest, with Yale was more or less in the nature of a normal triumph for Kershaw's charges. The Blue team, undefeatd in all its starts and rated as one of the best soccer outfits in the East was barely able to squeeze out a 2 to 1 victory after a hard struggle...
...many years threatened to "do something" about Southern disfranchisement of the Negro, and here was an admirable opportunity to do it. So the Tinkham amendment was passed, by a narrow margin Amid hysterical excitement, Congressman Tinkham kept hopping up and down, while his huge black beard bristled with triumph as he watched the (momentary) victory of his long-championed but apparently hopeless cause...
...finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy's cowardly fiance, Gerson St. George...
Subject to the settlement of a few remaining points of difference that still separate the German and Allied delegates, the Reparations Conference has finally arrived, after weeks of discussion, at an agreement over the total amount of Germany's war debt. The figures represent a triumph for the German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor...