Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge-Beveridge?great hot weather ticket!" said a famed colyumist...
...beaten. In the Paumonok Handicap with Zev (most popular American gee-gee since he beat Britain's Papyrus last year) a hot favorite, George D. Widener's St. James covered the six furlongs in 1 min. 11⅔ sec. (the fastest time ever run in the race), winning from Zev by four lengths...
...Columbia rather unexpectedly drew upon himself by his remarks against prohibition elicited no response from undergraduates: In part, the Spectator's defense of Dr. Butler is doubtless the expression of unthinking loyalty and perhaps even more of a desire to disprove the press statements that Columbia is a soothing hot bed of controversy." Yet its sane observation that "a law on the statute books is not so sacrosanct that one is forhidden to comment upon it or call attention to its shortcomings" contrasts pleasantly with the bitter personal arguments of Dr. Butler's attackers and defenders...
Ballooning is an ancient sport which dates back to 1784, when the hot air bag invented by the Montgolfier brothers made its first man-carrying flight from the gardens of the Tuileries in the presence of Louis XVI of France and of Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin, foremost scientist of the day, was asked what use the balloon was, he cautiously countered: "Of what use is a newborn infant?" And the balloon has indeed been the precursor of many mighty dirigibles. Per se its utility is small. Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful...
Meanwhile sensational Cornell fielding and steady pitching by Milligan was turning the University nine back scoreless inning after inning. The Ithacan infielders robbed the Crimson hitters of several apparently safe hits. A one-hand step by short stop Davis on McGlone's hot shot over second in the first inning and Bickley's back-hand stab of Gordon's drive in the third were the most phenomenal of the fielding features. The Crimson escaped a shut-out when Rogers reached second on an error by Henderson in right field and scored on a single by Campbell...