Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future in baseball for young men, as stated, "baseball is a good business, and there is always an opportunity for the man who has the ability to make good. Players in 1910 got a quarter of the salaries men receive now, and most of them today are successful business men with good incomes...
Once again the Engineers' light shell gave them a half-Ingth advantage at the start, but as both crews began to lengthen out by the quarter-mile the Crimson crept up. A sprint at the half-mile closed up the gap and the Harvard eight kept on for a half-length lead. With both sets of blades working about 32, gradually increasing up to 36 at the finish, the boat stroked by Vince Balley crossed...
Winding up three weeks of spring practice, Coach Carr's Varsity soccermen defeated the M. I. T. booters on the Tech fields by the score of 4 to 1, Saturday afternoon. In the final quarter the game was nearly broken up by the crowds crossing the field to watch the crew races on the Charles...
...Oxford-Cambridge meet he approached his worth when he did 4:19 behind Godfrey Brown. But Saturday was the best of all when he crossed the finish line five yards ahead of Rhode Island's Stan Holt. Northrop's right shoe came off at the beginning of the last quarter...
...Lightbody was not the hero of the mile relay Saturday. Dick Gill of Boston College would have beaten him if it hadn't been for a ten yard deficit at the start of their last leg. As it was Gill closed eight yards between them, running his quarter in the excellent time of 47.8 seconds. The Harvard team which was composed of Joe Donnelly, Frannie King, Tudor Richards, and Lightbody won the race despite Gill's performance in 3 min. 22.6 seconds...