Word: norton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awards of the Norton, Princeton, and Sheldon fellowships, the Perkins scholarships, and the Pasteur Medal and Elizabeth Wilder Prize were announced at University Hall yesterday...
...while Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound as the "Alaskan" peninsula, you will find on examination that neither Alaskans, maps nor geographers agree with you. In other words, there is no "Alaskan peninsula, while the "Alaska" peninsula is situate as above described...
Soon two others will be added to this list, newly elected Representatives Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey and Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn* of California. (Although the new Senate has met in special session and new Senators have been sworn in, the new House has not yet assembled and these members have not taken the oath...
...university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke the world...
Georgetown places its hopes on a small squad of 21 men, but this confidence appears justifiable when one scans their list of entries. At the head of the list comes Emerson Norton, who finished second to Osborne in the Olympic decathlon last August. Norton is almost undoubtedly the greatest all round athlete in college ranks today...