Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given to the winner of each event, most of the cups being given by former Crimson track stars. To the victor in the 100-yard dash goes the Mansfield Cup, donated by W. R. Mansfield '97 of the track team of 1895. Mansfield placed third in the Intercollegiate quarter mile at Berkeley Oval in that year...
...Late Elbert Henry Gary, onetime chairman of the U. S. Steel Corp., was for nearly a quarter of a century the object of much speculation: How much money did he make? Last week, nine months after his death, the yearly remuneration he received was published for the first time: a salary of $225,000 and annual bonuses of approximately $175,000 brought his earned income...
Before the initial quarter-mile sprint was over, the first crew, rowing 39 strokes to the minute, had overhauled the Junior boat and was gaining rapidly on the Ineligibles. From this point on, the race tightened, with all three boats stroking a steady 32-beat. In the closing half-mile straightaway, the Ineligibles failed to sprint in time to cover the determined rush started by Captain Watts and, had it not been for the clever steering of their coxswain, C. H. Pforzheimer '28, would have fallen more than a length behind. Open water still separated them from the Lawrence crew...
...McGrath '31 and A. L. Watkins '31 are expected to place in the dashes. Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 and W. C. Rowe '31 are counted on for points in the quarter mile. The Freshmen are strong in the distance runs, but will meet stiff competition in every race of the meet tomorrow...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is the richest of U. S. railroads. Its assets are approximately a billion and a quarter dollars. It has 2,324,095 shares of common stock outstanding. Great institutions as well as little people own that stock. It yields them now $23,240,950 each year...