Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the University team was running to an easy victory, the Freshmen were losing heavily to a fast turnout from Arlington High School. The race was an informal one over the new three and one-half mile Freshman track, which starts from the old horse racetrack, following the river away from the Stadium until it crosses the river and reverses along the other bank ending with the University track at the Lars Anderson bridge...
...clock, an interdormitory meet will be held among the Freshmen to determine the 1929 team to face Arlington High next Friday. Inexperienced runners are urged to report for this race, which will be over a short course...
...burning of a great cross in Arlington was postponed...
...Arlington Cemetery they laid the great pacifist to rest among the bodies of soldiers. Soldiers were on hand to give him military burial, taps were sounded and they lowered him into the earth, into the very spot that a few years ago had been chosen by Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks as his own final resting place,* below the empty tomb of Dewey, across the hill from the Unknown Soldier, on the heights overlooking the city of politics...
...will of the eighth Duke of Rutland, who left an estate valued at about $4,500,000, the Dowager Duchess, ''best and dearest woman ever born," received the Arlington Street house (which she has been forced to sell to meet the heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that...