Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes to learn how to grow rich at his trade. Sir Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband...
...team winning the best two out of three shoots will win the interclass championship, and the members of the team will receive individual cups. Last year the interclass championship...
...Rink, New York, in the final game for the intercollegiate championship. The team, which has won all four of its games, including that with Yale last Saturday, enters the final game as the winner of the preliminary series, with Yale standing second. The winner of the game tonight will win the championship, and gain possession, for one year, of the Stoddard and Ceballos cups. In the game with Yale last Saturday, the Harvard team was both faster and in better physical condition than the Yale team, and although the Yale men were better in stick work, the detail...
...match with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology team at the Institute gymnasium on Exeter street at 8 o'clock tonight. The first match on January 9 was won by Harvard by a score of 5 to 4, and since then the University team has improved rapidly and should again win. If the Technology team wins, however, a third match will be arranged...
...clock Saturday evening in the Technology gymnasium on Exeter street, Boston. This match will be the second of a series of two, the first of which was won by the University team by a score of 5 bouts to 4. In case the Technology team should win this meet, another will be arranged to decide the series...