Word: beating
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Captain-elect B. H. Ticknor '31 has been selected by Grantland Rice as center on his All-American Football Team. Grantland Rice, who is the logical successor to Walter Camp, is foremost in the United States of the many who have picked mythical elevens this year. Ticknor beat out Heinecke of Stanford for the position, and he would not have done so except for his weight advantage of twenty pounds and his superior speed...
...their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without picking up after him." Playing unevenly at Hillcrest Country Club near Los Angeles last...
...Paris, cocky William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three...
...class A Harvard stands fourth and will have to beat out Newton Center. Union Boat Club, and Harvard Club. Harvard Club is the only team ranking higher than Harvard in class B. The Walkover Club, now standing third, promises to furnish keen opposition, however. Harvard stands in the middle of the rank list in class C, in which Harvard Club heads the list with no defeats...
Fresh evidence suggesting that the beat of the heart is initiated by radioactive elements in the blood was reported by Professor Charles Christian Lieb of Columbia (pharmacologist) from the researches of Dr. Hendrik Zwaardemaker, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Utrecht, Holland. Professor Zwaardemaker took the hearts out of eels and frogs, pumped through them physiological salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other...