Word: clips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because a foreigner might well mistake the football stadium for the fortress or temple of U. S. education, the editors of The New Student, intercollegiate clip-sheet, published a symposium on the stadium's significance...
Tibbetts also ran a masterly race in the two-mile, taking the lead of the long field of runners whenever he wanted it, and finally, in the last lap, uncorking a sprint which brought him around the last curve at a 440 clip and brought him to the tape 40 yards ahead of Rosenburgh, the Virginia runner, who had seemed to be pressing him earlier in the race...
...three crews, including the Union Boat Club combination, started off at a fairly high clip but soon dropped their beats in deference to the state of the elements. The Crimson eight led by a slight margin after the take-off, but the Freshmen soon evened up and the two shells cut prow and prow through the first three quarters of a mile. The Unions never figured prominently after the half-mile mark...
Jumping off the line at a lively clip, both eights remained on even terms for the first dozen strokes, but here Bassett, setting the pace for the seconds, let the beat down to a long 34. The third crew, however, stroked by R. F. Bradford '23, clung to their original pace and burned out half a length's lead before the quarter mile was reached...
...through the assistance of the young financier and by the happy invention of a new eyeglass clip that Mr. Pinney's shattered fortunes are providentially retrieved at the last moment. And it is also in large measure due to the little spark of pompous courage which continues to burn in his insignificant bosom. He is a contemptible figure, is Mr. Pinney. But he is not wholly ignoble...