Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton except on a home-and-home basis, such as Chicago and Pennsylvania have, and Illinois and Penn had in their two year series. The Big Ten schools do not need to go east to get strong opponents, to get big crowds or to get football recognition. The Conference race is sufficient in all these respects...
Johannesburg news organs hotly demanded that some other method than a foot race be used to apportion what promises to be a $5,000,000 field...
When the flag should crumple down, 17,000 would-be diamond diggers would rush in a mad scrambling race to stake out diamond claims in a new field...
...Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under Smithsonian auspices, and with the aid of admiring Dutch officers, they had flown a Liberty-motored seaplane to the upper reaches of the Mamberamo River, alighted and made friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird-like calling back and forth, the pygmies presented their visitors with fatted pig, and posed affably-like milk chocolate babies with ruddy fuzz on their polls-for reels...
...Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...