Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantages of track-racing (high speed, visibility for crowds). Roosevelt Raceway's four-mile track has a three-quarter mile straightaway thanked by grandstands. The other three and a quarter miles, lying just beyond the straightaway, are coiled into three major loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world, the Raceway cost $1,000,000, which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening...
...bring our illustration up to date, we are reminded that among the members of the Class of 1910 were both "Jack Reed," the journalist who merited a grave in Moscow, and our conservative Congressman, Mr. Hamilton Fish. Look at some of the Harvard non-conformisas of the past--Theodore Parker, Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell--abolitionists, religious heretics, champions of women's rights. All were pioneers in a hostile land, yet leaders of movements which today are universally approved. The training of such independent thought is the goal of true education...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Stoughton 4; luncheon there. Dinner at Parker House, Boston at 6.30 P. M. Fri.--Headquarters, Stoughton 4; luncheon there...
...Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George C. Cutler; 1914--Junius S. Morgan, William Tudor Gardiner; 1915--T. Jefferson Coolidge, 3d, Walter H. Trumbull, Jr.; 1916--William J. Bengliam, Charles C. Lund; 1917--James C. White, Henry B. Cabot, Jr.; 1918--John K. Olyphant, Jr., Franklin E. Parker, Jr.; 1919--Cass Canfield, Winslow B. Felton
After five days of play, Perry, Budge, Grant, Parker, Mangin, Wood and Riggs reached the fourth round safely. In the match to determine the quarter-finalists, however, Riggs had the misfortune to play John Van Ryn, onetime Davis Cup player. Unseeded and unranked because of insufficient play, Riggs was eliminated...