Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other nation is appreciation of learning so widespread either in the ambition to partake of it or in the generous will to provide it for others. It was doubtless in the light of this truth that New York University, with a present endowment of only $3,720,000, of late launched a drive for $73,000,000 over five times the sum achieved by Harvard. Yet it is impossible to ignore the comparatively unimpressive showing made by college graduates, which is quite of a piece with the declining number of marriages and of children. Not so much the will...
...Conn., June 21 -The Harvard crews went through a light morning darkout today. All four crews paddled down to the submarine base and back. There will be no more time trials, as Coach Haines has expressed himself as satisfied with the University crew as it is now boated...
...Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record of 69; Melhorn...
...tired referee that staggered out of a Manhattan ring last week where awkward Light-Heavyweight Champion Paul Berlenbach had been defending himself against flat -footed Challenger Billy ("Young") Stribling. The latter had spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of range of a vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...