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...Tigers substituted 11 men in a vain effort to stave off defeat at the hands of Queens college last week. Princeton has nearly two complete teams of veterans who faced the University last year and will probably rush in fresh players at every opportunity tonight. In Zarakov, Harding, and Scott, the Crimson is also well supplied with a reserve forward line of high caliber, and Clark, whose hard body checking against Toronto was largely responsible for the low score will be ready to enter the fray at either Coady or Pratt's post on the defense. Captain Cumings, whose phenomenal...
...last king fell; the last knight rode out in a desperate and vain sortie, defying the white death that comes in the end to the gallantest chevalier and the most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME...
...president from 1905 to 1906, and became a senator in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed Governor General of French Indo-China. From 1902 to 1904 he headed the Budget Commission. From 1921 to 1922 he was Finance Minister: also 1895-96. He is "self-made" and a bit vain of that fact; boasts that tobacco has never entered his system...
...Golden Whales of Southern California larruped and flapped their fins in the crisp surge sent against them by Washington State ?in vain, for four big breakers from the Washington backfield crashed over the tideline once, twice , , , Score: Washington State 17, Southern California...
...vain his disciples clamored for his liberty; in vain they pointed out that without anything but water, mystic words and prayers, he had cured members of his faithful band of dreadful ills. Scientists explained that he was harmless; the annals of abnormal psychology are filled with such examples of monomania. Said a doctor who examined him: "I sincerely believe that if he lived during the twelfth century he would have been heralded as a saint, but as it is he is seized as a lunatic...