Word: unicorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rawlins '27, playing number two for the University, furnished another of the feature matches of the afternoon when he defeated Powers, the Unicorn veteran. After overcoming his opponent's lead, Rawlins pulled the match out of danger and won by a 3 to 2 score...
Orion grew up to be the lord of Erl and a great hunter. His hall was filled with stags' heads. Then, one evening, he unleashed his thin black hounds at the very edge of Elfland and cut off a white unicorn from its faery retreat. That was a brave chase and when Orion brought home the head, the Parliament of Erl began to feel their lord was indeed a magic lord. When he employed the trolls for whips and the will-o'-the-wisp marsh-folk to help him hunt unicorns by night, they knew his magic beyond...
During the first and third periods against the B. A. A. last night, Harvard showed it had not forgotten all its hockey in the Yale game, and held the Unicorn outfit to two tallies. The middle session told another story, however, so that the final score was eight...
...spite of the evening's somewhat disappointing showing, there were some highly creditable performances by University representatives. In all three of the University relay races their opponents numbered some of the fastest men in the country, and particularly in the B. A. A. contest, the University pressed the Unicorn runners to the limit. R. G. Allen '26, in the lead-off position, ran a beautiful race, trailing Dudley of the B. A. A. by only a stride in the first few laps, and then passing him on the next to the last lap, and piling up a 20 yard lead...
...Sale of the de la Rochefoucauld tapestries, (Hunt of the Unicorn, price $1,100,000) to John D. Rockefeller...