Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor, horse, foot and dragoon march into the Committee for Industrial Organization. . . ." After a little chuckle, he asked: "Fair enough? Fair enough, boys?" The miners clapped, and then uprose to howl approval as they got the point-that with C.I.O.'s voting strength John Lewis stood to win either way. Even Bill Green in Miami chuckled when he heard the proposal-and dismissed it as "impossible...
...generation or more the Hungarians have had no peers at the game of table tennis. When the Dowager Lady Swaythling put a cup into international team competition in 1927, the Hungarians proceeded to win it and defend it with monotonous regularity...
Instead of an exciting Budge-von Cramm final, Australians witnessed the painful spectacle of Champion Budge annihilating the ambidextrous and two-handed attack of 19-year-old Jack Bromwich,-which had been powerful enough to win three of the four major state championships (Queensland New South Wales...
Crimson Riders Win...
When a group of students take on the task of voicing undergraduate sentiment, their powers for doing harm obviously exceed their capacity for doing good. Aided by the public's tendency to confuse the writings of a dozen men with the unanimous opinion of an undergraduate body, they win a larger following than perhaps they deserve. And if Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem...