Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have been patronizing. The Hearst editor had won the most exciting journalist race of the year, although the field was publisher Curtis': magazines...
...what the promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight, said: "Fire." The 10,000 spectators sought exits, not calmly. Many were trampled. One man, who fell or was pushed over the balcony ledge to the floor below, later died...
...preliminary season for the three University crews was brought to a close yesterday with an informal race from Braves Field upstream to the Cambridge Boat Club...
...Swaim '31 stroked the winning crew to a victory over the shell stroked by P. H. Watts '31, which in turn left the crew with R. I. McKesson '31 setting the beat behind in a hard fought race over the winding course...
...first and second University 150-pound crews will continue rowing this afternoon and will leave tomorrow for Kent School where they will race the first and second Kent crews on Wednesday...