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Lining up possible starters for the 10,000 metre distance, Nurmi and Ritola of Finland and Wide and Ohm of Sweden appear to Coach Farrell to outrank anything America can offer. With Petri of Germany, who has done 32 minutes flat for the 10,000 metres, Beddarl of France, rated at 32.18 for the same distance, and Matilainen of Finland, the European contenders seem to have clinched most of the places in this event. Against this array of consistent performers America will probably send Osif, the former Haskell Indian School runner, Henigan of the Boston Athletic Association, and Richardson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN OLYMPIC HURDLERS STRONG, DISTANCE MEN OUTCLASSED--FARRELL | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...weekly magazines in popularity among those who voted in this referendum. Only the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty surpassed us in the esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem, if not in circulation, we outrank the Ladies' Home Journal, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Judge, Life, and the Police Gazette. Who shall say hereafter that the highbrow student does not turn to highbrow publications? Henceforth we shall have no doubts as to the progress of the intellectual life among he Harvard undergraduates--not even when they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

...music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out Among the People | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Elizabeth II"? The cheering crowds in Bruton Street were by no means certain that they were not cheering their future sovereign. The royal babe, although she is the King's third grandchild, outranks His Majesty's two grandsons, the sons of Princess Mary. This baby will ascend the throne in the event that she outlives George V, Edward of Wales and her father-providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birth Royal | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Although the retail grocer has the highest turnover, yet wholesalers as a class outrank retailers in this respect. The fact that all stocks of clothing and groceries turn over twice as rapidly as drugs, hardware and shoes throws considerable light on the greater success of chain store organizations of late years in just these two fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turnovers | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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