Word: medley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...examination groups are often disheartening. But even considering this, one can only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...
Beneath a benevolent sun, 2,796 mid-western running-jumping-hurling youths held a relay carnival at the Drake Stadium, Des Moines, Iowa, last week. On the average, their performances were better than those at the Penn Carnival. Iowa State captured the medley and the two-mile relays, and the University of Iowa won the 440-yard and the one-mile relays. No decathlon was attempted...
...race is not always to the swift", in all truth; nor is it to the co-educationally stunted mentality. All praise to them who race their tedious way to glory on Brattle. There is no need for a medley relay...
Those running in the special sprint medley in which two men run 220 yards, the next man 440 yards, and the last 880 yards, is as yet uncertain, but these men will be picked from R. T. Dunn '28, W. C. Peet Jr. '28, L. D. Brayton '28, G. A. Tupper '29, A. H. O'Neil '28 and T. E. DunnJr...