Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race for the presidency Saltonstall defeated J. L. Beauchamp '28, W. N. Bump '28, and V. O. Jones '28. Bump, who ran second, was, in accordance with the rules govening the lection, made vice-president...
...relay team, running a mile race against Yale and Maryland, was only able to get third place. The team, composed of Captain E.C. Haggerty '27, A.H.O'Neil '28, W.C. Peet '28 and R.N., Ryan '28, put up a hard battle, but found the competition too fast. Maryland won the event in three minutes twenty-eight and four fifths seconds...
...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...
...have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned the Premiership. "Mes amis," asked Premier Poincaré last week...
...emigrated to the land of his race, joining the Chinese Government service in Peking. Later he edited, and still later bought the Peking Gazette. At the close of 1917 he was in jail for writing anti-Japanese articles. Pardoned, he joined the Nationalist party of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, at Canton, and was sent to the Paris Peace Conference with the Cantonese representative, Dr. C. C. Wu. When the new Nationalist Government began its conquest of South China (TIME, April 5) he became its "Foreign Minister...