Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...
...Drake's Drum," "Salamaleikum," "Secrets," "Rolling Down to Rio," "Old Man Noah," "Laughing Song," "Australia," and a medley of football songs. The Vocal Club has been rehearsing industriously for the past month under the tutelage of R. P. Bullard '24, co-star with B. F. Cogan '24 in former Hasty Pudding productions...
Planning to fly straight from Panama to Bogota, Colombia, the flyer snatched an extra stop. Over the reputed Caribbean burial spot of an earlier, famed wanderer, Sir Francis Drake, he sought the north coast of South America. The little walled town of Cartagena, one of the oldest in the new world, gave him greeting to his third continent...
...placid, palm-fretted harbor where the Maine was blown up, guarded by hoary Morro Castle, which was begun in 1587 by Felipe II of Spain as protection against Sir Francis Drake and his marauding ilk. Perhaps someone on the Texas could point out the stone chute in the seaward wall where executed prisoners used to be slid to the sharks...
...President appointed Walter F. Brown of Toledo to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, succeeding J. Walter Drake of Detroit, who resigned...