Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster in the American University than at Oxford or Cambridge...
...thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
...Crimson shows more strength this year than ever before. In the race last Saturday with Georgetown, the time, 7 minutes 10 1-5 seconds was eight seconds faster than the one contest which Harvard has won since the war. This was without the services of Allen who is one of the strongest of the University runners. Although Coach Farrell has not definitely announced the personnel of the long relay team, five men have been picked from which the quartet will be chosen toworrow before the race. Allen, Barker, Chapin, Cutcheon, and Watters. Followers of track generally agree that Watters will...
...Play Faster In Last Period...
...harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was declared the winner. He retained thereby his middleweight championship of the world, won from Wilson last September. Greb fights like a windmill-revolving, waving, swinging, slugging. Wilson has heavier hammers in his hands but he could not hit the windmill on the head. For several rounds he battered Greb's body. Shifting his attack to points higher up, he lost his aim. Meanwhile the champion drew blood from...