Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet. Now that Hoff has joined the professional ranks, there is little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane, who has done 13 feet, and Reed and Lindblad, who cannot even reach that mark...
...year 1920-1921 he studied at Copenhagen as holder of the fellowship offered by the American Scandinavian Foundation. He was president of the New England Poetry Club from 1923 to 1925, and is the publisher of six volumes of Poems and a translation of Danish verse...
...opposition in this event as in most others, America will probably depend on Lermond of the Boston Athletic Association and a team selected from Cox of Pennsylvania State College, the intercollegiate cross-country indoor and outdoor mile champion, Booth of the Newark Athletic Club, former intercollegiate cross-country title holder, Payne of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kirby of the New York Athletic Club, M. L. Smith of Yale and J. L. Reid '29, Harvard cross-country captain, are other possible starters...
...Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve. There the clubs were taken in charge and entertained by the local Junior League. In Atlanta, Georgia, the next stop, the entire group on the tip was given all the privileges of the Athletic Club through the kindness of R. T. Jones Jr. '24, holder of the United States Open Golf Championship, and after the concert in the Women's Club, attended the annual dance at the piedmont Driving Club...
Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...