Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line somewhere strode their most-feared rivals, 60 hardy Finns, among whom the greatest names were Paavo Nurmi (distance runner entered in six races), Willie Ritola (present U. S. distance champion, bearing Finland's colors because of an Olympic ruling), Hannes Kolehmainen (long time a Marathon marvel), Porhola and Torpo (weights...
...over Mother Earth. The actual night flying zone will extend only 1,460 miles between Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo., with 335 miles from Cleveland to Chicago, and 240 miles from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, illuminated only when the long days of Summer have disappeared. The illuminated airway, a marvel of engineering, has received the coöperation of the General Electric Co., the Sperry Gyroscope Co. and the American Gas Accumulator Co. The combined candle power of all the lighthouses and beacons will be 5,279,000,000. At the main lighting stations (Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte...
Captain Gordon excelled as never before this season. He refrained entirely from his wonted long-range shooting, and his passing and dribbling were things to marvel at. Smith was almost equally good and the two teamed together perfectly. Black and Rudofsky were superb on the defense, as the record of four field goals by Dartmouth indicated...
This most recent volume of Sherwood Anderson is a collection of nine stories, long and short, with a Foreword and a short eulogy of Theodore Dreiser. It is not enough to catalogue those tales with the complaisant adjective "realistic" and marvel at the sordidness that is occasionally revealed or the peculiar intimacy of the author with human mental processes and physical passions. Several of them may truthfully be accused of realism; but on the whole they are far from that; when the author sees the worst, which is not seldom, he paints it blacker than actuality could conceivably be; when...
Harvard will play Brown in football on November 15, 1923, according to the Brown University Football Schedule announced last night by Dr. Fred W. Marvel supervisor of athletics at Brown...