Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such a bad defeat to wipe out, the University came back strong in its game with Cornell on May 16, and presenting a powerful attack and a defense that successfully baflled its opponents, swept the Ithacans off their feet, only to let them down at the end of the last period to a 7-3 defeat...
...opportunity for great usefulness wherever his lot is cast, for wide influence and for distinction in many ways, and he will find in it constant interest and what is more important, independence. In business a change in methods, a change in the control of a corporation, various disasters may wipe away the fortune accumulated by years of labor, and vicissitudes are common, while though a lawyer may not reap as large returns as are gained by bankers and merchants, the results of his labor are more uniform and more steady, and his life is always interesting and as independent...
...that of war. The Utopia of the artists of war advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information of this-are no more idle, the Krupp engineers have completed...
...British Government is experimenting with a system of government controlled largely by Indians in a final attempt to quiet the discontent which had arisen with British rule, while the Extremist Party is working more strenuously than ever before to stir up the people to a revolution which will wipe out British rule entirely. The outcome is in the balance, and both sides are striving to make it tip their...
...minor sport. Out of seven games played thus far, Captain Tolbert has led his men to victory in five, suffering defeats by Wesleyan of Middletown and Worcester P. I. At both of these colleges basketball is rated among the important sports. The University, however, will have a chance to wipe out the latter defeat Saturday...