Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mission Indian Harry Chauca (Los Angeles A. C.) broke by 15 4/10 sec. a 25-year-old world's record set by Great Britain's Alfred E. Shrubb for the 6-mi. run. The new record...
...donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...
...Lindenthal will be able to solve all his problems, and perhaps the City of New York will build his bridge if the B. & O. does not. But by 1930 the North River Bridge Co. will have been in existence for 40 years. And Builder Lindenthal will be 79 years old...
Patriotic Britishers were fearful, last week, lest the famed Portland vase be sold across the sea to some wealthy U. S. art collector. A ten-inch cinerary urn found during the 16th century in an old Roman tomb, long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed...