Word: lengths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three-quarter length margin, the University crew stroked by P.H. Watts '31 yesterday repeated its victory of Saturday afternoon over crew X, stroked by S.W. Swaim '31, in a closely fought contest over the Basin course...
...brim and slobbering over, the ladle is moved along over a train of flatcars in which ingot-molds stand up some seven feet from the car-floors. From mold to mold the ladle hastens, filling each with its white-hot content. When the ladle has gone the length of the train, the row of ingot-molds glow in the darkness like monuments of hardened fire. Thus steel to the steelworker. But to the steel-tycoon, to U. S. business & finance in general, it is gold that melts in the furnace and earnings that spark from the spout. To Hoboken this...
...first University crew will have but ten days in which to round into form before the race with the Engineers, who inaugurated their season on Saturday with a three length victory over the Navy eight on the Severn. This was the first Technology win over the Middles in nine years of racing and it portends that the Crimson oarsmen have no easy time ahead...
...Works. That prisons are too pleasant, and justice too lenient, he thought years ago when he wrote his first full-length thriller, The Four Just Men. He thinks so still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine...
...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...