Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Malcolm Turner Hill '30, of Waban was elected captain of the Freshman tennis team after the Exeter match on Friday, it was announced last night. Last fall Hill, playing with H. L. Johnson won the National Indoor Junior Championship. The first year team which was defeated by Exeter by a score of 7-5, will journey to Milton today to take on the scholboy racquet wielders...
Track athletes, straining across the finish line, are timed by stopwatches in one-fifths and one-tenths of a second. Last week, at Cornell University, Professor A, "V. Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave...
...lady, Chausson, Dupaic," Professor Hill, Music 3 (French Music to Debussy), Music Building...
...Weld Golf Course is on South Street, about half a mile beyond the Brookline Country Club. The Club may be reached by taking a Chestnut Hill car from Park Street and transferring at Hammond Street, Brookline, to a bus. Busses run every 20 minutes between 7 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night, to the head of South Street, about 1,000 feet from the Club...
...Francisco, pedestrians on a hilly street were startled to hear a savage war whoop; to see five urchins leap from five parked automobiles and scamper up an alley; to observe the five automobiles ?two on one side of the street, three on the other?start coasting down the hill. One nimble pedestrian leaped into a car coasting backwards, braked it, stopped two of the other cars with the bumper while other bystanders pushed from behind. The two cars facing downhill, bumping against the curb were delayed sufficiently for saviors to control them. Men bawling 'Thieves! Thieves! Stop there! Thieves...