Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean young man with a puckered face stood at the rail of a liner that docked last week in Manhattan. He was Charles Hoff, famed all-around athlete, holder of the world's pole vault record (13 ft. 11 15/16 in.), arriving from Norway to compete in the season's indoor meets. He has never before vaulted indoors, but believes that he can achieve the as yet unrecorded height of 14 ft. He will also compete on board tracks against the best U. S. middle-distance runners. Charles Hoff is the first to arrive of four celebrated European...
...most important matches of the year will come on February 20, 21, and 22, when the University squad will defend its national title in Washington, D. C., At the same time the individual championship of the National Squash Racquets Association will be defended by Dixon. Last season the title holder won the crown at Buffalo while participating in the team matches. The former University captain accomplished the notable feat of winning all his matches in both the individual and inter-district club tournaments...
John R. Mott, famed holder of many an honorary degree, extensive traveler, tireless international social worker, presented $4,232,467.01 worth of budgetary reports, as General Secretary of the National Council. Once he declined to be U. S. Minister to China; his acceptance of other responsibilities has been without reserve. Sonorously he entoned a list of 30 countries in which a major portion of the association's funds were spent last year...
...from which the members of this year's team will be picked. A large number of candidates are expected by Coach Cowles to enter the competition for positions on the squad. Graduation hit last year's national championship team hard by taking W. P. Dixon '25, national individual title holder, and E. M. Upjohn '25. Captain Debevoise and H. N. Rawlins '27, are the only veterans left, but there are several of last year's Freshmen and second team players who will compete for berths on Team A this fall...
...versatile Mr. Edmonds also publishes a story relating the perils of holding double-pinochle, when the holder is an octogenarian who all his life has drawn mostly nines and jacks. "The Miracle of M. Le Noir" by C. C. Abbott is De Maupassantesque, thoroughly so, and one is tempted to say satisfactorily so. But the best story of this issue, despite the title "Her Daughter's Child," and despite the fact that it illustrates the undesirability of tacking bits of Mr. Arlen's style onto a Mrs. Freeman plot, is Donald Gibbs' story of Jane Fermier's grand-daughter...