Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dash predictions. Tuxill was one of the members of the Red and Blue 140 yard relay team which, with Scull running as anchor man, equalled the world's record for this event in the Tenn relays early in May. Payne, another former Olympic runner, is the leading penn prospect in the two mile. He took fourth in Cambridge last year and with Giles is counted on to pick up a few points in the distance grind. The dispute concerning the leading Penn half miler was settled to the satisfaction of track folowers on Saturday by a trial race in this...
...Wright in the hammer throw, with a record of 161 feet to his credit, and Kanrich in the discus are other prominent Penn contenders in the weight events. In Baxter, Penn has a high jumper who has been over six feet several times this spring. While there is little prospect of his rivalling the efforts of King and Work. Stanford's two high jump specialists, his mark compares favorably with those set this year by Maynard, of Dartmouth, and other performers who will probably come in for some of the lesser point divisions in this event...
Washington, D. C., was said to be threatened by bad building, especially the White House prospect...
...teams will split about as evenly as possible, while the 100 ought to yield Harvard six and Yale three points. In the hammer throw Shapiro is expected to win for Harvard with Lindner a Crimson possibility in either second or third. The javelin throw offers the most uncertain prospect of the afternoon. It has been forecast that this event will end in an S to 1 victory for Harvard, and the same has also been prophesied for Yale. Any score except a clean sweep is perfectly credible in this event since the four leading contestants. Dean and Davidson of Yale...
...Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably dead. The prospect of bigamy in the family, even though unintentional, rocks the Mardens to their skeletons...