Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the Yale and the Harvard first boats went over the four mile route last Saturday in the last time trials before the race. Coach Leader's Blue eight negotiated the distance just three seconds faster than did the Crimson shell. Three seconds difference in times means less than one boat length in distance, and if the time trials can be taken as any indication as to what the crews can do in a race, there should be no open water between the shells at the finish Friday...
...Smith written and placed his messages unassisted- because in the long run Lord & Thomas would probably egg Mr. Smith on to do more advertising than he would have done uncounseled, and because the expertly couched Lord & Thomas messages would prove more satisfactory, would expand Mr. Smith's business faster and make both possible and necessary more messages than if Mr. Smith and his sales manager had given up their golf, taken pen in hand and scratched their heads for a month...
...half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate Sundays. They bought a bell, started a cemetery. But the Protestants of Samnaun seemed to prefer the cemetery to the church. They dwindled away much faster than the Catholics-so fast that at last there was only one of them left, the old man who rings the bell every other Sunday in the empty church, calling the phantom parishioners to worship. He retains his rights...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
...Ralph Hills has wonderful nervous energy and unparalleled speed. It is a pleasure to study his style. I have welcomed the opportunity to do so in his trips east during the past two years and also at the Olympic games. No "small" man has ever crossed the circle faster than Houser in my belief...