Word: setbacks
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...with the passage of the 20th Amendment (Repeal), two of the most zealous. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell and Dr. Francis Scott McBride, last week were again building. Dr. Russell last fortnight celebrated his 82nd birthday. Hale and vigorous, he said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique of their comeback, a "mock trial of Beverage Alcohol...
...Morocco, where he arrested and promptly shot Leftist sympathizers, and assumed the title of High Commissioner. Three days after the rebellion started its official leader, General Sanjurjo, was killed in an airplane accident over Lisbon. In the emergency, Francisco Franco, who had kept the revolution alive after its first setback by pouring in Moors and munitions from across the Straits of Gibraltar, became generalissimo in name as well as fact...
...next setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with a plank. The officer whom he asked to arrest them replied: "It will do you good, this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive...
...idea that the clean slate of the Varsity and Jayvee crews was not long to be preserved came when the Freshman crew received a decisive setback at the hands of the Navy Plebes. The same story was told in both preliminary races, where the Sailors jumped into a quick lead they never relinquished...
Inter-House crew almost received a severe setback Thursday when the Adams shell sprung a leak and nearly went to the bottom. Shamed Gold Coasters successfully kept the news under cover until last night...