Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to the public, seen and unseen, and began his speech (see col. 2). Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew louder and louder. It was, Boris must have thought, dismal weather...
...nation. In attempting to execute the orders of Congress, a large corps of census experts, statisticians and genealogists have wrestled for four years with the problem of tracing back for 140 years the ancestry of 120,000 people. The chief results so far have been expert disagreements and rancorous race disputes...
...first race of the year will be on May 4 against M. I. T. on the Charles River course. This will be followed by a race with Cornell over the same course on May 11 and a triangular regatta with the United States Naval Academy and Pennsylvania at Annapolis on May 18. The annual race with Yale will, as usual, be held on the Thames in the latter part of June...
...yard high hurdles, Harvard grabbed an unexpected third when F. J. Mardulier '30 nosed out Heasley and Young of Cornell in a race in which Collier of Brown, the winner, fell short of equalling record time by one-fifth of a second...
...mile relay the strong Harvard team lost first place to the Dartmouth quartet after leading for the first two legs of the race. Andrews in third place and Captain Swope as anchor man won this victory for the Hanoverians approaching the record by three-fifths of a second. In this event Harvard was represented by V. L. Hennessey '30, Vernon Munroe '31, F. E. Cummings '30, G. A. Tupper '29. In the two-mile relay, the University team did not place...