Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale team will line up with Ingram, the captain, in the first position Holbrook second. Rittenberg third, McGliun fourth, and Weiner fifth...
...white elephant, adorned with tar and talcum powder, strolled down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, at 12 noon, trailing behind her a train of toy trolley cars, each painted, in large letters, with the name of that excellent hostelry, The Hotel Roosevelt, what would this be? It would be a publicity stunt. What would a hardboiled, wise, cynical, alert newspaper reporter think it was? He would think it was a front-page story. This, at least, was the opinion which intelligent persons were compelled to adopt after witnessing last week in Manhattan an example of journalistic susceptibility to unoriginal press-agenting...
Leaping and snarling like a small, vivacious cougar, Rev. William A. Sunday preached at the Coliseum, in St. Louis. It was the fifth week of the projected seven-week revival meeting; Billy Sunday had signed up about 4,000 converts and he wanted some more. He gave a "sermon" on "The Three Crosses" and talked about the opera Faust, in which Marguerite, a pregnant girl, dies of broken-heart. Said Billy Sunday...
...reveal what was accomplished, Miller took the 40-yard dash, Allen the 300-yard run, Kane the 600-yard run, Watters the 1000-yard run, Tibbetts the two-mile run, and Fletcher the 45-yard hurdles. In his race Allen clipped two-fifths of a second off the 300-yard run. When the pistol cracked for the start of the 600-yard event. Haggerty was badly blocked at the start and Kane was soon trailing fourth or fifth. By the time the runners had passed the press stand with but two more laps before the finish, Kane had sneaked...
...University polo team will meet the Cincinnati Riding Club tonight at Cincinnati. To date the University team has been undefeated, having won its fifth straight victory last week by defeating the Army at West Point. Holden White '28, will make his first appearance with the trio this season, playing No. 2. F. A. Clark '29 will be at his position at back, while either 3. P.Collon '29, who has been playing No. 2, or R. B. Burnett ocC., will be at number 1 position...