Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl...
...Harvard crews from 1908 to 1915, inclusive, were coached by James Wray, and won six of the eight races rowed, the 1908 race being the one in which the Yale stroke was taken into the launch at the three-mile mark and the crew finished with seven men in the shell...
Down the final stretch the chest of the sturdy Penn runner showed a yard and then two yards, ahead. The Red and Blue broke the worsted a yard and a half before the Crimson-jerseyed athete. The time of 1 minute, 53 seconds, set a new intercollegiate mark. Bingham's time, 1-5 of a second slower, still stands as the Harvard record...
There exists a local phenomenon appearing annually at this season that is known to the natives as changeable weather. Properly it is one with the subject that has been ostrasized conversationally since Mark Twain pronounced that dictum that people have no right to complain when they never do anything about it. Still it insists on attracting attention because each year in the opinion of experienced observers it far exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with...
POET Charles Cortez Abbott292 Mark DcWolfe Howe 186 Ballots Not Marked 18 Total 496 ODIST John Caspar Dreier 204 Eduardo Andrade 190 Edward VonPechmann Renouf 90 Ballots Not Marked 12 Total...