Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mile Relay: Joseph Donnelly '41. Torbert MacDonald '40, Tudor Richards '38, James Lightbody...
Glenn Cunningham of Kansas regained the world record last night in a 4:04.4 paced mile on the Dartmouth board track. The veteran miler, making the first serious timed attack on the world record since Taber's 4:12.6 at the Stadium in 1915, lowered English Stan Woodersen's recently accepted record of 4:06.4 by two seconds...
...Mile, Nadia Boulanger will conduct this concert, made up of nine rarely-heard compositions. Soloists, all drawn from Mile. Boulanger's own company, will be: Mme. Giselle Peyron, Mme. la Comtesse Jean de Polignac, Mme. Irone Kedroff, Mme. Nathale Kedroff, Hugues Cuened, and Doda Conrad...
Even the most sophisticated music-lover will find nothing banal about the joint concert of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in Sanders Theater tomorrow evening. Mile, Nadia Boulanger has searched deep in the annals of composition to bring out a program of nine rare and beautiful pieces that should stir the soul of the hardest critic...
Poor discipline and short-handedness were usual conditions of Congress's navy, which reached its peak in 1777 and then declined rapidly to seven vessels. Three-masted and square-rigged, the frigates and sloops of war were small and fast, with a gun range as far as one-half mile. Of the three top U. S. commanders, John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many...