Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of Franklin Roosevelt's noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of the semiannual Gridiron Club shows displays a lack of grace, pertinence and dexterity sufficient to horrify the least critical beholder. Gridiron Club high jinks are by no means the only such doings by which the President's endurance is regularly tested. Last week, his principal social relaxation after five working days...
Holding down the center three-quarter positions in the back line are Joe Kennedy and Pepper Constable. Kennedy, Varsity end this fall, was on the rugby team two years ago and is back in his old berth this season...
Three 20-yard pool marks stand out: Princetonians Dick Hough and Al Van de Weghe swam 2:23.4 in the breaststroke and 1:33 in the backstroke respectively, while Kendall's out-of-league 4:46 quarter-mile broke a national intercollegiate record...
Paced by six Dartmouth runners, with handicaps ranging from five to 600 yards, Cunningham ran his race almost exactly as he planned: the quarter mile in 58.5 sec., the half mile in 2:02.5, the three-quarter mile in 3:04.2 and-pumping his piston-like legs as fast as he could-the mile...
...Freshmen natators lost to the Elis, 47 to 28. Clocked in 2:29.8, Paul Metcalfe, Blue breastroker, broke his own National Intercollegiate Freshman record for the event. The Crimson mermen were best in the backstroke, as Captain Art Bosworth and Charlie Moore took first and second, and in the quarter-mile, when Lon Stowell and Bob White placed...