Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vehicles ever to reach that mountain outpost. Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut. The party from Peiping, too, had encountered difficulties. Lieutenant Commander Victor Point was in charge. In the Gobi Desert two Chinese deserted the expedition, charged Commander Point had assaulted them. At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there. With them was Vladimir Petropavlosky, Russian member of the expedition, who remained a prisoner for three...
That story was dug out of the confused scene around Shanghai last week by Associated Press. . . . Correspondent Peggy Hull of the Chicago Tribune found a German officer commanding well-drilled Chinese fighters. . . . Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune drove to Japanese headquarters near Woosung in time to see a hapless Chinese condemned to death because his captors found money in his pocket ("evidence" that he was paid to kill Japanese...
...work of the two men, Verrocchio the realist and Desiderio the exquisite sentimentalist, dominates the exhibition. The same Verrocchio who produced the mighty Colleoni has given us the forceful bust of Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots...
...meet on Saturday. Oscar Sutermeister '32 won the fall handicap meet from scratch, and should annex a place in this one. The distance runs follow: The three-quarter until grind at 3.20 o'clock; the 600-yard run at 3.30 with H. F. Kellmeyer '33 as a likely the victor, and the 1000-yard race at 3.45 o'clock. Ten minutes later the 300-yarders will too the mark, with N. P. Dodge '88 as a possible winner. The one and a half mile event at 4.15 o'clock finishes the track items and should be closely contested. Should...
...there was the argument with King Kalakaua of Hawaii which ended in defeat, Sugarman Spreckels returning his medals and title and the King allowing rivals to enter the rich sugar territory. And there was the titanic battle with his son Rudolph over sugar after which the son emerged a victor and millionaire...