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...there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen, of Mr. and Mrs. Kronk, dashed up the cinder-hot stairs, bent over the baby's crib. Smoke made her eyes dazzle. She could see nothing in the crib. Was it possible that the baby had been carried out after all? Heat licked at her skirt, singed her arms; terrible heat burrowed in her eyesockets. No, there...
...expected that these pistons would perform any prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards in 6 4/5 seconds breaking a world's record* that...
There was, there is a certain satisfaction in connecting things. So when the winds of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, whirled snow and cold air and an occasional cinder about the house with the room with the brass bed with the literary occupant, the literary occupant read two books, connected enough to satisfy the greatest stickler for good connections. For both the books concerned nephews, one, the glass relative of the Gentle Cardinal Peter Bon; the other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying...
Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26, of the 1926 cinder team called the attention of the candidates to the necessity for cooperation with the coaches with the management, and with each other...
...Meredith, famed middle-distance runner of a decade ago, surveyed a cinder track that stretched away, a curving, gun-metal line, from where he sat in the grandstand at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. On that track, in the course of the afternoon, he saw the runners of the University of Southern California win the 120-yd. hurdles, the 220-yd. hurdles, the discus throw, the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship, with Princeton second, Yale third. He saw two runners-Tierney of Holy Cross, Marsters of Georgetown-each miss by just half a second his famed intercollegiate records for the quarter...