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...that the influence of the United States, at first Intended to protect the infant liberties of small nations, has become a blighting incubus, stifling native development. The swaddling clothes, tenderly wrapped about these small peoples a hundred years ago, have, by natural growth of the protected object, become a straight jacket to cramp their initiative and curtail their liberties. The Monroe Doctrine, which originally protected Latin America from European imperialism, has become the justification of a no less hateful policy of American imperialism...
...Blacks on Saturday faced Richards and Sturhahn, on the left side of the line in place of Joss and Wortham. The new combination did not go as well as the old and in addition the right side crumbled under the fierce attack of the Crackers, Georgia on straight line plays making 73' yards in the first period against 23 for the Blue. Jess, Wortham and Root were put into the game in the second period in place of Richards, Eckart and Butterworth and the line showed more power, holding their opponents even on rushing gains in that quarter and outdoing...
...game, the Japanese star lost his game, giving Briggs a 3-2 advantage. This was the only time throughout the match when Briggs had the long end of the score in his favor. After losing this game, Harada settled down to business and ran the set out in four straight games...
Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. "He was tall, straight, vigorously impressive; a gray-haired John Barrymore with eyeglasses; or rather John Barrymore as he might have looked if he had gone in for real estate or automobiles instead of for Shakespeare. He moved quickly and spoke brightly, as if he were in the advertising business. A little too handsome, a little too slim-waisted ?and much too busy...
...called Big Three (Eastern), Princeton set about her work most impressively. When Coach Roper's men had done, Amherst's line was little more than a ragged fabric of perforations and the score was 40 to 6. Coach Roper employed straight plays and three complete teams. Amherst's score was the work of Right Guard Pratt who intercepted a pass, lumbered 30 yards...