Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same, with Feldman and Chase playing the premier roles. Feldman won this event from Gourdin last year by a small margin, but Chase, who has developed remarkably this year, and won the event against M. I. T. should give him a hard battle. Chase is a masterly runner, with perfect form, and a complete knowledge of racing. As a rule, he starts slowly, but comes through at the finish with a rush, as he ably demonstrated by overcoming a lead and winning the event from Poole of Technology last Saturday. While these two men are battling for first place...
...feature of yesterday's practice. Owing to the fact that Coach Bingham did not wish to give his high hurdles a too strenuous workout, there was no race in this event. However, the 220-yard low hurdle race was run off. In the final heat, Gordon after a perfect start, led Reycroft all the way to the tape, winning by inches. Reycroft, although unable to catch Gordon, nipped Palmer by a narrow margin. The high hurdle race will be run off next Wednesday
...allowing but six hits and several times getting himself out of bad holes. But the mound work of the visitors was also of the highest quality. Horan allowed four hits and kept the Crimson batters under control through most of the game. The fielding on both sides was almost perfect up to the last inning when the Crimson work fell down for a moment under the heavy hitting...
...these few reservations are felt only when reading the play. When acted, they all vanish in the grace of the witty, tender dialogue, which is written with perfect tact, without the least vulgarity or bad taste, and which succeeds in giving to everything, no matter how far-fetched, the illusion of reality...
...nearly perfect minor invention, and one in almost universal use today, is the Yale lock. This lock appears to have been used by the natives of eastern Africa long before it was known to civilization. The Makonde and Ambo tribes fasten the doors of their houses with these locks. They are large, and clumsily made of wood. The tumblers are about an inch in diameter, and when the door is unlocked, are raised to the proper height by means of a clumsy key with corresponding projections...