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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was a large, blocky woman of tremendous, athletic vitality, and of a personal magnetism so great that she was sometimes called "the most popular princess of her time." The present Queen and Empress forged her own naturally retiring and bashful disposition in the heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial of spirit which renders...
Meteors, literally "things in the air," refer specifically to luminous bodies known as shooting stars, falling stars, fireballs, bolides. Traveling rapidly through the air, they generate intense frictional heat which burns up most of their material substance. Thus, they become "balls" of fiery gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
...first day occurred to one of the Californians best runners. Emerson Spencer, generally picked to depose Cecil Cooke, giant Syracuse negro, from his place as the premier quarter miler in college ranks, was forced out of the meet by falling to take better than a fourth in his qualifying heat in the 440, a heat which was won by Swope of Dartmouth in 49 7-10 seconds...
...Miller '27 and T. G. Moore '29 were the only Crimson stars who lived up to expectations. Miller took first in his heat in the 100, while Moore tossed the Javelin 190 feet 5 1-2 inches to earn the right to compete in today's final test of strength in the event. Miller also fought his way to the semifinals this afternoon in the furlong. The other Harvard runners who came through the first day of the battling were J. S. Malick '27 in the 440 and R. P. Porter '29 in the half mile. Neither of these...
Next to the surprise caused by Spencer's failure to lead his heat in the quarter, perhaps the greatest upset provided by yesterday's batting was the elimination of Anderson of Cornell in the shot put. An unheralded Bates runner...