Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Willird L. Tibbetts of Harvard, winner of the 1925 championship, naturally will be an outstanding favorite to retain his title. Anyone who has seen the determined clear-striding little Harvard captain at his best will readily concede that the may lower the association record. The present mark of 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, set by Ivan Dresser of Cornell in 1919, already has withstood six assaults...
...Council, when interviewed on the progress of the Fund yesterday. "The early returns to the Fund," he said, fare very encouraging. Up to the present, the average contribution has been rather higher than we expected; on the other hand, the number of men who have contributed has been somewhat lower...
...news that the A. P. pumps from all parts of the U. S. and the rest of the world. Publisher Hearst, whose Rochester paper, has access to that current, determined to block Publisher Gannett and did so by representing to the Associated Press that to grant another franchise would lower the prestige and money value of his own, and indirectly, of all other A. P. franchises...
...reader's novel, splashed with color, with consummate skill laid on. It begins in Abyssinia in afternoons hibiscus-red, rose-pink, iris-purple; in twilights of sapphire-matrix, gold lacquer, saffron fire, blood-scarlet; in sepia shadows of moonlight and, far and far away, star-spangled indigo of the lower sky. There, in a barbaric dawn, John Masterson, a normal middle-aged Englishman, ponders the news that he is heir to a fortune. Only a prayer-got sense of duty persuades him to accept it. Returning to London, he finds his fortune times and times bigger than expected. In fact...
...lower Basin the two leading crews drew steadily away, while the second crew caught up with the third and soon passed it. The third boat was caught in the wash of the launches that were trying to keep up with the other shells, and dropped steadily back...