Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British connoisseur and tester of wines, and his information of the method by which he does the testing (TIME, April 22): It is told of the old days in England that one of the three officers in every community-the other two were the high bailiff and 'he low bailiff-was the ale tester. Posterity has cast a blot on the 'scutcheon of that worthy by corrupting his honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed...
Conditions were excellent with scarcely any wind, and as a result several good scores for the difficult course were turned in. Phillips Finlay '31, playing number one man on the Harvard team, was low man for the day, getting a 73 in his match with Chesley whom he defeated...
...When the low yellow clouds of chlorine actually appeared the irate French General Staff pounced upon General Ferry, then in another part of the line, and removed him from his command...
...class B group, Brockton High collected 20 1-2 points to top Newton and Lawrence High Schools, the leading competitors, who tied for second with 15 apiece. The outstanding feature in this class was the performance of Klauer of Browne and Nichols School who did the low hurdles in 14 3-5 seconds, tieing the record made last year by E. E. Record '32 of Brookline, recently elected captain of the Freshman runners this year...
...inches. Another feature of the class C events was the high jumping of Moissio of Fitchburg who established a new record with a 5 foot, 11 1-2 inch jump, equalling the winning mark of class A. Hayes of Somerville took one fifth of a second the low hurdles record set by Monty Wells in 1924, but he toppled the last hurdle which disallowed the time as a record...