Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the saga of the Buddenbrooks clatters the Manns' ancient family coach. Their medievally faithful servant, Ida Jungmann, tended Thomas. He published Buddenbrooks in 1901, the year of the first Nobel Prize, which he did not win. For almost three decades Buddenbrooks has been constantly in press, still sells in Germany at the rate of 4,000 copies yearly, was brought out in the U. S. by Knopf...
...masters, they became at times noticeably excited. At Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam chess followers saw the astounding spectacle of a challenger carrying a match to the world's champion. Once Bogoljubow, in defiance of all tradition, passed up a sure draw to gamble on a doubtful win. Last week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete the 15½ points that would decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook...
...Devens, plunging and crashing back, who was the first of the Sophomore backs to win a permanent place in the Crimson lineup. It was he who scored the touchdown against a Booth-captained Yale Freshman eleven last year; he also pitched the 1932 baseball team to a win over Yale last Spring, fanning 13 Blue batters...
...purpose of this comparison. Merely to point out that Yale has in Booth one of the best drop-kickers in the country this season, and that Harvard has at least two who compare very favorably even with him. Also to point out that all Harvard needed to win the Michigan game was three points, and that Yale last Saturday against Princeton made several long marches including one of 96 yards which ended on the one yard line. It requires a peculiar kind of courage to attempt a dropkick on 3rd down when a touchdown seems so near, and a team...
...Grange ever had. Last year he captained his Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams and he bids fair to be Yale's best athlete in more than a decade. According to pregame predictions the balance of the game rests in his hands; if he gets loose, Yale will win; if Harvard holds him, the Crimson banners will wave above the Blue...