Word: seesawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's principal discovery was a onetime Brigadier General of the English Army washing dishes in a Quebec hotel. While he scrubbed, Charles Henry Gough could ponder a seesaw career in which he had at various times been custodian of drumsticks, sabres, human lives, counters of lingerie, saxophones, dishrags...
...Irregular Republicans thus became the fulcrum of another Senate seesaw, and the tax fight changed from a question of total reduction to several questions, on what reductions shall be made...
...deadlocks, a Harvard, and then a Dartmouth victory, preceded five straight Crimson wins which led up to the break of 1912. The contest in this year, the last before relations were resumed in 1922, was one of those seesaw affairs, with both teams fighting bitterly for an advantage, which finally came to Harvard through the talented toe of C. E. Brickley '15. Something in the way the Dartmouth forwards handled Brickley after one of his other attempts at a field goal which went wide of its mark, or a desire to put Cornell on the Crimson schedule...
...successive days Hotchkiss and Taft were overcome. On Saturday, however, the Freshmen met their first real opposition, finally succumbing to Choate by the narrow margin of 3 to 2. It was a well-played game, Captain Gimlich, the opposing moundsman, being the deciding factor in a thrilling seesaw contest...
PRINCETON, N. J., May 10.--The Princeton baseball team battled its way to a 15 to 14 victory over Brown today in a thrilling seesaw contest in which the ball was knocked to all corners of the diamond. The Tigers smashed out 21 hits, while their opponents made 14. The scoring beban in the second inning, when the Brown batters knocked Townsend out of the box, and almost did the same for Caldwell, scoring nine runs before the inning dragged to a close. In the third, the Tigers uncorked their slugging streak, and returned the compliment by making nine runs...