Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American colleges blossomed with the launching of the Intercollegiate Cross-Country Association in 1899. England led the world in distance running in those days, yet is was only a matter of half a dozen years before the performances of our athletes were on a par with those of the Englishmen. One reason why America has failed to hold its own in the international distance classics is because men give up distance running after being graduated...
...score of 11-4, and by Swathmore College, 11-8, while they have succeeded in downing the University of Pennsylvania, 10-2. Due to the lack of practice by which the university team is still handicapped and to the fact that the Harvard--Oxford-Cambridge clash will be the Englishmen's seventh game, Coach Lydecker looks forward to a hard contest...
...Englishmen rescued Mumtaz Begum from the ruffians of the Maharaja. With what were these Englishmen armed...
...Scanned in their leisure moments an article, "Do We Need a Mussolini?" contributed to the Sunday Pictorial by Lord Rothermere, its founder, who opined that he could think of three Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...group of Englishmen returning from a game of golf, and armed only with golf sticks, were unable to prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...