Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heaviest. Johnny Merchant of California was in my opinion the greatest little man that ever threw the hammer. Merchant weighed about 185 pounds and stood about five feet ten inches in height; he held the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in 1922. Another great little man was Bill Quinn, the former field coach at Harvard, who weighed only 163 pounds and could throw the hammer 165 feet...
...Cornell will enter this year's meet as the defending champion, and naturally will be rated as a likely repeater after the form he showed in the indoor 70 yard championship. Russell was two-tenths of a second away from Wefer's record last year, but so were Bill Schick of Harvard in 1904 and Reidpath in 1912 and Woodring...
...purpose of the bill, which admittedly never stood the slightest chance of passing, was merely to record publicly the Reichstag's opposition to all such proposals, thereby clearing the way for a national referendum on this highly important question...
Cuba's Week. President Machado signed last week a bill reducing the present sugar crop 10%, with penalties up to $2,000 a day for sugar producers who start grinding their crops before the late set by the government. Cubans hope by this stratagem to keep the price of sugar from slumping because of overproduction...
...name for his diploma, or something. "Buck" Halperin, another footballer, captain for next fall, followed Al and Sam. So did Lawrence ("Larry") Forster, baseball captain; so did Arthur ("Art") Bramhall, star pitcher; so did Edwin Fogarty, social light; Millard Meyers, Oak Park funnyboy; the two popular Hadfield boys, Bill and Bud-and many another. It was a veritable procession of Oak Park notables, 51 of the leading boy students...