Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilderness Woman (Aileen Pringle-Lowell Sherman). Perhaps there is no greater wilderness in the world than Manhattan. Man's stone reforestation has not driven out the danger and the loneliness. In this comparison of a wilderness of trees and a wilderness of streets, there might be a deep and stirring picture. The present producers have chosen to make it a cheap composition of many usual things, stringing them together in a generally unamusing necklace. An unschooled Alaskan girl invades Manhattan, cleans out the Biltmore Hotel tea room with her pet bear, learns to dress beautifully, to live dangerously. Matters...
...only basis for comparison between the two teams is their records against Williams. Harvard won rather casily from the Purple while Dartmouth was defeated by a close score...
...article which is printed below is a resume of I. C. A. A. A. A. competition, which has now reached the half century mark, by O. F. Hedlund, track coach at M. I. T. Hedlund has divided the whole period into three parts, which furnish a basis for comparison between the athletes of different times and a means of tracing the progress the colleges have made in developing track and field prowess...
...history of the I. C. A. A. A. A. lends itself admirably to a comparison of times by eras. I have split the meet into three eras of sixteen years each. Sixteen years represents four complete college generations. In order to do this I have disregarded the performances of the first year, and have taken into consideration the 48 meets since then. The averages thus obtained speak for themselves, as follows: 1877-92 1893-1903 1909-26 m.s. m.s. m.s. 100 yards 10.36 10.12 9.97 220 yards 23.10 22.50 81.58 440 yards 52.60 50.23 48.75 880 yards...
...Pennsylvania crew will give rowing experts their first basis of comparison between the Harvard and Yale boats. Ten days ago the Eli crew, by a driving finish, led the Penn shell across the line by half a length. The Red and Blue eight is coached by Coach Spuhn, who last year had charge of the University 150-pound crews...