Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metre dash. While he was in College Miller frequently broke 10 seconds for the 100-yard dash, and despite his 200 pounds of weight, he is counted upon to make a creditable showing in the New York meet. His opponents in the dash at the Bronx ball park will be men of high calibre. Henry Russell, former Cornell track captain and former intercollegiate champion at 100 and 200 yards, and Jackson Scholz of the New York A. C., Olympic 200-metre title-holder, are the leading lights of the sprinting world who may be expected to face Miller...
...century revival of classicism Miss Margaret Anglin will appear in Sophocles' well known play. "Electra" in atmosphere much like that which characterized Sophocles' productions during his lifetime. The play will be given in the open all in Providence, R. I, on June 26 and 27. In the Roger Williams Park...
...Francis C. Chadwick of Ardema, N. J. went out for an airplane ride with his son Stewart. Over Asbury Park, he leaned out of the cockpit to see what the famed resort looked like from a height of 1,000 feet. His spectacles fell from his nose. Next day the same spectacles, undamaged, were returned to Mr. Chadwick by Arthur Van Brunt, on whose Asbury Park farm they had fallen...
...sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...
Assaying did not take long; the engineers hastened to Manhattan with analyzed data. Mr. Dillon, solitary in the great silence of his soundproof office downtown, studied them. Mr. Chrysler, less sensitive to racket, studied them at his office in midtown Madison Avenue. When he went to his Park Avenue home four blocks away he was preoccupied, and servants avoided disturbing...