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...turned out once again. Sturdy CRIMSON batsmen, their muscles rippling a promise of quiet power, took their turns at the plate yesterday afternoon and easily lifted over 30 hits to the outfield, scoring, as Dame Fortune would have it, 23 runs to vanquish the hapless gentlemen of the Lampoon,--the 45th straight CRIMSON triumph in as many starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson All-Star Aggregation Whips Lampy By Sensational, Overwhelming Score of 23-2 | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...mediocre Cornell nine which had chalked up its first victory of the season over Boston College Friday displayed an unbeatable brand of ball Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field behind Walt Sickles' four-hit pitching to vanquish Harvard's league leading team...

Author: By Thoodore R. Barnett, | Title: Mikkolamen Whip Crusaders, Huskies; Big Red Beats Nine in Sloppy Contest | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles. It is interesting to note that the combination of the divine side of Faust's nature and the nobility of womanhood as expressed in Gretchen are sufficiently strong to vanquish Mephistopheles and to give a triumphant ending to the work. Wagner's Faust Overture is also on the program. This was originally intended to be the first movement of another Faust symphony, based on Goethe's drama; but was finally arranged as an overture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

...movement that will go down in the history of our Socialist construction as one of its most glorious pages. Wherein lies the significance of this movement? "Why did Capitalism defeat and master feudalism? Because it made society wealthier. Why must the Socialist system, of economy inevitably vanquish the Capitalist system of economy? Because it can furnish society with more products and can make society wealthier than can the Capitalist system of economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes of Labor | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Only a decisive victory over Brown will raise hopes in the Crimson camp of defeating Yale next Saturday, and this possibility is a remote one. Then too the Elis have been picking up steadily, and theirs has been the only team to vanquish the men from Providence in Brown's last eleven games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS MEET BROWN QUINTET TONIGHT | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

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