Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Number 15 is one of the greatest shells I have ever built. It was in its prime when the Crimson took it to England and captured the Challenge Cup in the great Hanley Race from some of the greatest crews in England. The 150 pound crew have been using it for the last three years. It staged a proud comeback year before last when they defeated Yale in it. This boat I'm working on now is on the lines of the old Number 15, and will be as fast. It will probably be initiated by the University Crew this...
...basic problem in Mexico is the agrarian problem," stated Mr. Tannenbaum when asked for the chief problems facing Mexico. Next, in order of their importance, are the problems of their relation with the United States, the problem of political democracy, the race problem, education, and the industrial problem. The religious problem is least important...
...burn up the boards with McAllister, popularly known as the "Flying Cop." A week ago McAllister sped by Chester Bowman, the national 60 yard champion, to win by a yard. The Crimson's giant speedster will start with Russell, the Cornell star, McAllister and Charles in the 60 yard race. Leon Murchison, Frank Hussey, Jackson Schoiz, and Ernest Morrill will leave the marks in the second heat. The two leaders of each dash will clash in the 50 yard finals. Murchison had not lost a race at the Mill rose games in four years, but he may not show...
...here I am back in Cambridge again, finding the dear old town quite deserted by the members of the Vagabond family. While Freshmen prepare for English A and Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge...
...knew Sitting Bull," the tanned, "blue-eyed pathfinder continued when he of the scribbling race had withdrawn him to the more purified region of a tiny lake. "He was a big disappointment. After the battle of Big Horn, which he merely directed from the sidelines, he and his squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found him to be a low and wily...