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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penttila, representing Finland, has launched the javelin 213 feet. Sund, the Norwegian, has done 204 feet and Molles of Germany and Lindstrom from Sweden have also achieved something like 200 odd feet. America cannot equal these European marks. However, we have improved a great deal in the last few years and America has at least six men approaching the 200 foot mark...
...fact that we have four men who are better than Europe's best. Osborne from the I. C. A. A. A. A. holds the record with six feet and six inches; Maynard from Dartmouth has jumped six feet and four inches; Juday from Pennsylvania and King from Stanford have done six feet and four inches, and six feet and five inches, respectively. The best Europeans are Nilson, the Swede, who can reach the six foot four mark, and Koppke from Germany...
...national champion in the distance jump. He placed first at the last Olympics in Paris, making 25 feet and ten inches his record. At the last I. C. A. A. A. A. meet five men bettered 24 feet; the best Europe has is Doberman from Germany, who has done 24 feet and three inches
...metre event there will probably be Vennstrom of Sweden, rated at 15.3 seconds, and Burghley and Gaby of England, both of whom have done 15 seconds flat or better. Sempe of France, and Steinhardt of Germany are not quite so fast as the other three but under the pressure of Olympic competition, might step into the lead. America, however, has unquestionably better material. Wells of Dartmouth and Ring of the New York Athletic Club with Werner of the Illinois Athletic Club and Dye of California can all of them turn in stellar performances, while there is any number of good...
...America's culture. They felt, however, that the millennium is approaching, and took for their keynote the familiar word "prosperity", the prosperity that leads people to buy books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done in wooden blocks with deceptive backs, can now afford the actual volumes. Whether she finds time or inclination to read them is an important consideration. Mr. Dodd, President of the Association said that she does, that the public is learning to discriminate instead of buying "best sellers because everyone...