Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open water between the boats. Now Princeton made a game but useless attempt to gain back some of the distance but without avail, for Amory gradually raised the stroke, the men behind him got the beat better and the Crimson crossed the finish line in 10.20 1-2, faster time than that made by the second Harvard boat...
...pretty race should develop between Coxe or Yale and Stevenson of Princeton British champion in the event, The former won in the dual meet last year and is even faster now. But Stevenson also has improved; and if he makes the same showing today as he did against Oxford last summer, the Tigers can depend upon him for a first place...
...visitors just having pulled in their sixth run. J. C. Ross '23, the lead-off batter for the Seconds, flied out to catcher, but S. B. Chase '21 reached first when MacCurdy fumbled his stinging grounder. P. S. Dickson ocC. connected with one of the pitcher's faster balls and sent it on a dead line far into left center field, where it rolled many yards further, for an easy home run. K. B. Lucas '23 was hit by a pitched ball...
...Soldiers Field, the University team will be given worthy opposition by the veteran nine of Bates College. Last year Bates was the intercollegiate champion of Maine, and this year, with veteran outfielders and pitchers, but with a new infield, the Bates team is considered even faster than the championship team of a year ago. Other than this, little is known of the respective abilities of the two teams, but since the University has several weeks more practice than Bates, and since it has already shown by defeating Northeastern College 16-4 that it is a machine of some power...
...quite sure that today's ruling will be reversed somewhere else before the week is out. So completely are our law-making and judicial bodies in the hands of the lawyer class, that public life has degenerated into a mere contest to see whether one side can make laws faster than the other side can pick holes in them. "Diamond cut diamond" is a fascinating sport for every one but the tax-payer: all he wants is a little peace and perhaps a drink...