Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, and the costumes, rented for the occasion in New York, have been retained in Cambridge. If the play is presented again, all the former participants have signified their willingness to take part in it. The patronesses, moreover, many of whom were erroneously reported as having withdrawn, stand behind "Fiesta" as before...
...huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American Red Cross last week, when that organization's executive head, Judge John Barton Payne, made clear that the American Red Cross had withdrawn from relief work in China...
...competition for the International Military Trophy 18 riders, three for each team, rode 18 horses around the ring. A last minute shift in the U. S. line-up caused 12-year-old Buckaroo, who had hitherto been the best jumper in the show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland...
...game had been going in Harvard's favor until toward the end of the first half when E.F. Ver Wiebe '09, started a march for Harvard which seemed destined to go through for a touchdown. To the amazement of every one on the Harvard side Ver Wiebe was withdrawn when the ball reached Yale's 20 yard line and V.P. Kennard '09 was sent in to kick a goal from the field from a somewhat difficult angle...
When Ver Wiebe was withdrawn, Kennard walked on the field along that line and, when at the right distance made the signal to the Harvard center to snap the ball, the ball was passed and the goal kicked before the Yale players, and almost before the Harvard men grasped the true significance of the situation. Kennard's success crowned perhaps the most persistent training on one feature of the game ever gone through by an individual, for he had practiced drop-kicking for months until he had the trick worked into a fine...