Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath a benevolent sun, 2,796 mid-western running-jumping-hurling youths held a relay carnival at the Drake Stadium, Des Moines, Iowa, last week. On the average, their performances were better than those at the Penn Carnival. Iowa State captured the medley and the two-mile relays, and the University of Iowa won the 440-yard and the one-mile relays. No decathlon was attempted...
Last winter, E. Millington-Drake, of the British Embassy at Brussels, desirous of securing a collection of War books designed for presentation to the Library of Eton College, sent inquiries to the Harvard University Press concerning the small book, "Harvard Volunteers in Europe," and the more extensive publication of five volumes, "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead". The authorities of the Press made the presentation, and President Lowell and M.A. DeW. Howe '87, the author and editor of the "War Memoirs," signed their names to an appropriate inscription...
Since then Mr. Millington-Drake has sent in return the "List of Etonians" already named, with inscriptions by Canon Lyttleton, head master of Eton during the years before and at the beginning of the War, and by the compiler of the volume...
With a tooth in the air, and 110,000 (the biggest crowd that ever saw a U. S. football game) in the stands, the Navy met the Army in Chicago. The Navy goat had a room and bath at the Drake hotel- but where was the mule? Running, passing, kicking, Midshipmen Caldwell, Hamilton, Schuber scored twice before the second period was over. Out ran Lighthorse Harry Wilson, Army back, bored to a touchdown; the Navy dropped a punt, the Army scored again, and while guns went off, cornets brayed, airplanes skipped, tanks gamboled, men in blue and men in grey...
...jongleurs of Notre Dame, having completed seven successful matinees this season, and hoping still to be the football champions of the U. S., once more demonstrated their ability to keep the ball in the air. Drake could not see how the trick was done. Score: Notre Dame, 21; Drake...