Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Bingham took his squad out on the Stadium field and track yesterday for the first time this year, the runners having previously practiced only on the new quarter mile oval in the northwest corner of Soldiers Field. Some of the sprinters took part in the intial time trials of the season, while the longer distance men underwent their second series of tests...
...face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing...
...families now impecunious, and handed down along with the patent of nobility, as things to be kept in the family. In London, there has been discovered recently a reputed portrait of Shakespeare; in France a score of Millet paintings hitherto unknown have been brought out of some forgotten corner; and Murillo's "Gentleman of Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed up and tidy again is about to resume his rightful place in the galleries. Only...
...Captain Driscoll of Boston College, who obtained permanent possession of the cup by this third consecutive win. Driscoll had the pole at the start of the race, and Burke was lined up on the outside. This slight difference was enough to enable the former to lead to the first corner, and he was never headed, although Burke was running neck and neck with him most of the time. The winner's time was 1 minute 17 1-5 seconds. Sidney Loslie of the New York A. C. took third place several yards behind Burke...
...story was much the same in the race between the veteran Tech quartet and the Crimson one-mile relay. Richard Chute '22 led off for the University and took the first corner, but allowed Poole to pass him on the back stretch, and from that time the M. I. T. runners were never headed. Poole handed over a nominal lead to W. L. Smith, who running against W. C. Bennett '23 increased it to 20 yards. H. W. Howe '22 lost 30 yards more to W. B. Gurney, and J. W. Quinn '23, running anchor for the University, was able...