Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pubic goes will be the 40-yard dash for the Major Briggs trophy. It will combine the stars of all the sprint events in the K. of C. and Millrose A. A. games. Milland and Burns will try their luck against the collection of the world's greatest sprinters. Coach Farrell says of Miller's performance in New York Thursday night against a fair representation of these stars, "There was no daylight to be seen between Miller and Murchison at the finish of the dash at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Murchison is the king of indoor sprinters...
...adopt the tutorial system, has, in recognizing this problem, surpassed the other departments by providing that each professor shall also be a tutor. It is to be hoped that this provision will soon be universal. Only by such cooperation of tutors and professors will the tutorial system achieve its greatest usefulness...
Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...
...University forwards, with the exception of Smith and Rauh, were ineffective, and even these two failed to put over their customary number of tallies, Leekley and Jones failed to score. Failure to turn effective passes into goals has been one of the greatest difficulties of the Crimson five this year, and this factor accounts largely for the defeat on Saturday night. The foul shooting was also weak. The bright spot in the University play was the work of Malick, who scored five baskets from the floor from his post on the defense...
...Tilden now changed his subject to that of tennis, of which he is often hailed as the greatest exponent of all time. "The college tennis star of today cannot make the grade in the tennis championships," he said. "Of course there have been a few, but the competition is getting too keen. In fact, in all sports today, there is a tendency toward the thirties and forties in the ages of the stars, with the exception of golf. Golf used to be called the 'old man's game,' but now it is coming to be perhaps the most youthful...