Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bath. President Serrato of Uruguay was made a knight of the British Order of the Bath as a mark of appreciation for his entertainment of Edward of Wales (TIME, Aug. 24). Not long ago President de Alvear of Argentina was similarly knighted...
...Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half a length behind, to even terms, and-at the finish-a quarter of a length ahead...
...race in which he set the present collegiate record of 9.17 4-5, he ran five feet out from the pole, which means that he ran at least 30 yards over the two-mile distance. Had he continued running another year he would, beyond question, have lowered his best mark...
...history the titles have been won by athletes of eight colleges. Cornell men have won 14, Penn 4, Harvard 2, Johns Hopkins 2 and one has gone to Yale, Columbia, Michigan and Williams. The record has been lowered eight times, exactly 41 seconds having been sliced off the original mark set by Alex Grant of Pennsylvania...
...addition to the baseball games, two tennis matches and a Freshman 156 pound crew race mark the period of mid-week athletic activity. The University come up against M. I. T. while the second team meets Andover, and that first-year 150-pounders face Tech...