Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastman was primed to set a new record in the quarter-mile and to try to do what no athlete has done since Pennsylvania's great Ted Meredith in 1916* win the quarter and half-mile on the same day. The next best runner in the race seemed to be Vic Williams of Southern California but Eastman had beaten him two weeks before at the same distance. They came out of the chute with Eastman running well back in the pack, his hands dangling, his stride so smooth that it might have been designed to keep his glasses from falling...
...Meredith now functions as an assistant Penn coach...
...Carnegie Medal for saving the life of a hunter bitten by a rattlesnake in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. One-mile Relay, The Penn team (Carr, Edwards, Steele, Healey) whirled away from all rivals, equaled in the muscle-stiffening air the 3 min. 18 sec. record made by Ted Meredith's team...
...advancement. Though many Negro leaders be lieve that the salvation of their race is not to be found by such purely industrial training as Tuskegee offers, all recognize Dr. Moton as one of their great leaders, a potent contact-man between the Negro and the White. Last week Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones, white Baptist pastor from St. Louis, whose father was chaplain to General Robert Edward Lee, said: "Moton is the perfect incarnation in his personality of the ideal and dream of this re public, that the day shall come when all races and all castes and all classes...
...magazine of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity (alumni: Calvin Coolidge, Newton D. Baker, Thomas R. Marshall, Charles Warren Fairbanks, Lew Wallace, Meredith Nicholson, Christy Mathewson, and Rockwell Kent) has a heading for the roster of the marriages of the brethren which reads: MERGERS...