Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain J. L. Reid '29, running his last cross country race for the Crimson, is expected to take one of the first three places of the field of 223. He took third place a year ago, while William Cox of Penn State and H. L. Richardson of Maine, who took first and second places last year, are again in the running. Cox, however, was beaten by Reid in the Intercollegiate last spring...
Engaged. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; to the Honorable Michael Simon Scott of London, brother and heir presumptive to John Scott, fourth Earl of Eldon...
...find a place in one of the varsity boats. In addition to this shifting, the head coach adhered to his policy of rotating various men in the stroke position and also in the coxswain's seat. As in the past under Coach Brown, the ultimate choice of a cox will rest with the oarsmen themselves...
National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself during the next four years, the re-election of 1932 might as well be a perfunctory...