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Word: quarters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason '30 and A. E. French '29, the University entries in the 60-yard dash, will face Michigan's captain, George Hester, who broke the tape in this event in the Big Ten Conference games last year. In the quarter mile V. L. Hennessy '30 and F. E. Cummings '30 will be matched against Munger, who has bettered 50 seconds for this distance. In the longer runs, Harvard, as has been the case in all of its meets during the past few years, will be the heavy favorite. Captain A. H. O'Neil '28 and R. P. Porter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN FAVORED FOR MICHIGAN WIN | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

Although the ice lined the Cambridge bank of the river and was piled in floes in the basin around the Weeks Memorial Bridge, a quarter of a mile of open water above the Newell Boat House gave the boats room for a good workout. Attempts have been made during the past week to keep the river open for the daily-passage of boats, but the severe weather has closed up each night the lane opened during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OARSMEN TAKE TO ICY WATERS | 3/15/1928 | See Source »

...brief cruise marked the semi-official launching of the outdoor spring crew season, as it is expected that the weather and river conditions will permit outdoor workouts nearly every day from now on. On January 13 five shells ventured out on a quarter of a mile of open water in the earliest workout recorded. A day or two later the ice again blocked the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVIATHAN DEFIES FLOATING ICE CAKES | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...position of Count Luckner's legs shows the result of much walking the quarter deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...needed her less than ever. There was still Zanti, of the little curiosity shop, who dispensed philosophy to Janet much as he did, volumes ago (Fortitude, published 1913), to Peter Wescott. There was Peter himself, young and successful novelist. There was old John Beamister-Zoffany Club at a quarter to one precisely-who approved Janet's quiet dignity. More important, there was the Duke, benevolently white-haired, who knew the bitterness of Janet's love for his son. But none of these were enough-none of them needed her. Then suddenly the death of her child pitched Wildherne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Lonliness | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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