Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of the Class football games will take place today at 3 o'clock when the Sophomores and the Seniors clash in an unofficial encounter on the class team field...
...last an even better idea was produced. It was decided to have El Ouati run an exhibition race against Johnny Hayes, the man who 20 years ago made the marathon popular just as it is hoped that El Ouati will do now. This exhibition race took place last week; as had been expected, Johnny Hayes did not really try to beat the Algerian but merely trotted around with him once and then watched from the sidelines while El Ouati continued to drum circles on the track. The race did not at tract a crowd; for when people saw "Johnny Hayes...
...announcer in the stadium, wearing a scarlet tailcoat because the Queen was expected to be present at the finish, called the positions. Dorando was leading; Hefferon. a South African, was second and Hayes, who started slowly, took third place in the last six miles. Just after 5 o'clock the stadium track was cleared and at 23 minutes past, Dorando and Hefferon were in sight, running heavily down a hillside...
...less than last. But production now is at 94% of capacity and is efficient. Directors again decided to pay no common dividends.) Lastly, happily and philosophically Tycoon Schwab presided over the yearly general meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, where for so long he had truculently endured subordinate place to the late Judge Gary. His epilogue: "Our country as a whole is still in the high tide of prosperity, and prospects for the immediate future are favorable...
...England. General Electric last week apparently accepted a subordinate place in England's electrical industry. Its British Thomson-Houston Co. sold a majority of its common shares to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. which controls other electrical concerns. But British Thomson-Houston's chairman, H. C. Levis, is to be Metropolitan-Vickers' chairman. Hence the deal was a consolidation of similar interests, not a G. E. sell...