Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Brocksmith of Indiana won the two-mile run in 9:13.6, a new intercollegiate record by 4.2 sec. Then, as anchor man on the team, he helped Indiana win the four-mile relay, losing the field in the last...
...these arguments the priest advances only feeble opposition, does not use the dialectic resources of the Church. When Joel calls life "an eddy in the Second Law of Thermodynamics'' the priest does not draw attention to the Virgin Birth. But the scientist's ratiocinations leave him unconvinced. When the anchor-chain grates overboard at Port Said, Joel finds the out-argued priest sticking to his divine guns still. Joel cannot figure him out. Also he sweats less than Joel, does not seem to mind the stewing heat. He is a queer fish too. Kamongo is one of the two April...
...years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
...other line (except Anchor, a Cunard subsidiary) hastened to follow Cunard's lead to boost travel traffic. U. S. companies continued their attacks on the "nowhere" cruises from New York to New York. Senator White of Maine had two bills before the Senate to halt the practice as injurious to U. S. shipping. U. S. seamen. He rallied supporters at a hearing before the Commerce Committee. Said David E. Grange, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union: "A sailor on the beach is just like a defeated United States Senator...
Captain B. S. Wood '33 is Harvard's other likely five-point scorer. Wood has shown his versatility throughout the season by entering both distance swims and sprints, in addition to holding down the anchor position on the relay. His best chance of victory seems to lie in the 440, in which event the holds the intercollegiate championship with a time of 5 minutes, 4 seconds. He would encounter Captain Osborne and Harte, both of whom have exceeded this time but who trailed Wood last spring in the Intercollegiates...