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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among these on the field yesterday that displayed some inkling of their ability was the blond 175-pound Charles Burnett, brother of Bob Burnett on the Varsity. A star at St. Mark's last year, Burnett is a good strong kicker, and an accurate passer. Yesterday his punts were consistently well placed and in the vicinity of fifty yards...
This is the normal size Freshman Class strictly limited by the College regulations to the century mark...
...Ralph Flanagan, Miami free-style star, his third A.A.U. mile championship with a new world's record of 20 min. 42.6 sec., bettering Jack Medica's 1934 mark by 15.2 sec.; his second 440-yd. championship with a U. S. and meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship...
...possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately...
While Claude has settled down to live out her life on a farm, the children she grew up with have gone much further afield. All her sisters have married, all of them much better than Claude. Of the Gerfaut boys, Mark has become an imminently famous writer, Ivan an explorer; Philippe, her special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then...