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...send the seconds into the lead. A really in the sixth, in which Barbour singled, and Ellis and Molloy doubled, brought in two more runs and clinched the victory for the Crimson team. The Beavers scored once in the sixth and again in the seventh, but could not undo the damage done by the second's rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS DOWN TECH BEAVERS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

What the Anti-Saloon League has done, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment seeks to undo. What the late Wayne B. Wheeler was to Dryness, Captain William H. Stayton is to Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...toot." But while Conklin and Bancroft are not always funny, they are always fast in a brand new comedy background, namely the railroad field which seems to have infinite possibilities, especially when this pair are out to make a run. Indeed, these two comedians seem to be out to undo the jinx that makes so many slapstick favorites of the footlights flops of the Kleig lights. They spare neither themselves nor each other in making "Tell It To Sweeney" extremely hectic and reasonablly funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Borah v. Butler | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Ederle beamingly assured them that his little girl said she was going to "git her roadster." The rain fell harder. The seas were treacherous as a swarm of sorcerers. They did not wage fair battle, but disguised in many shapes their malice, plotting curiously to undo her. Now an army of horsemen came riding against her breast, with plumes blown back and dark flanks swelling in a line; and now a thing like a wolf reared over her and fled

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Channel Crossing | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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