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Fisher's toss of 172 feet, 11 3/4 inches broke the Harvard record by two feet, 10 3/4 inches, and manager George Caploe should actually be credited with an assist Friday night at the famous Homestead restaurant, after the trials, Caploe offered to buy the former Varsity center a two inch sirloin steak if he would break the record Saturday. Fisher, with customary indifference, said he couldn't promise anything but that he would "go all out" to set a new record. He got the steak dinner...
Professor Ballantine, known for his famous composition "Variations on Mary Had a Little Lamb," has been teaching is the Music Department since 1912. He studied plane and composition for many years, both in this country and in Germany , and graduated from the College in 1907, with highest honors in Music...
Professor Pound has always been a strong man and for years could run a five minute mile. When he lived in Belmont, he walked six miles a day to Cambridge, and he became famous among his neighbors for going coat-less in subzero weather...
...Lesses, G. B. Roberts, Lazarus Rubin, D. H. Sanders, David Seegal, and Samuel Teitelbaum were the only men of '22 to hold Group One averages as the year got under way. And the Otis Elevator Company advertised that the Kremlin was only one of the world's many famous buildings equipped with Otis Elevators...
Three matching bits of evidence in a row were more than coincidence. While the Fellows of the Royal Society watched intently, Blackett wrote down an equation* which may become as famous as Einstein's law, E-mc². It looked like the physical hybrid which science had been searching for so eagerly. On one side of the equation was magnetism, an electrical effect; on the other were basic gravitational quantities...