Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late great German, Robert Koch (1843-1910), who with the late great Louis Pasteur (1822-95) gave medicine its modern turn and who lived long enough to win a Nobel Prize (1905),* discovered the tuberculosis bacillus. It is often called Koch's bacillus. One of Koch's and Pasteur's early disciples in the new medicine was young Léon Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German...
...victories over Yale stand out as the high lights of the last four years of Horween coached football at Harvard. A fifth year of service here has been made even more attractive by the bright prospect of a third win against the Blue. A complete survey of Horween's record since 1926 reveals 17 victories, 13 defeats and two ties; Harvard has scored 508 points to its opponents 322. The new regime started inauspiciously with only three victories out of eight starts. In 1927 the new ideas had taken hold as was shown by the record of four victories...
...Little was on the Harvard track team in 1908, 1909, and 1910, when his performance with the shot helped Harvard to win in 1910 over Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth...
Pest Welch and the rest of the great Purdue backfield rollicked through Indiana's line to win a 32 to o game that Purdue did not need to make sure of the Big Ten championship...
Catholic v. Atheist. Ferdinand Foch and Georges Clemenceau: Devout Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson...