Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been a hot race among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers to be first to talk to London. Who competed and who won, his company refused to say, regarding such information as confidential despite newsgatherers' arguments that the distinction of talking to London on the first day would be "a great ad" for anyone...
...does play, or has until the recent Princeton break, four other rivals which are rapidly becoming traditional, Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Princeton. Furthermore in traditional rivalries, the game itself is less rather than more emphasized because of the large social element. Certainly the football game and the crew race with Yale are social events in which the athletic contests themselves are almost minor. It might be pointed out that the schedule next year contains two intersectional games which will hardly decrease the excessive prominence of the games preceding Yale...
...heard many tales from my Indians of a race called the Pogsa, which means animal people," stated Dr. McGovern to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "We managed to catch some of them, a most peculiar job. they speak a language which is a combination of clicks, clucks, and gutteral explosious. Their language caused us the most trouble. We would often use nine or ten interpreters to translate the language for us, one passing the story on to the next man, till it finally reached me, after being transferred from dialect to dialect...
...life span increases we ascend the spiral of progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about a bit, and die. The former survive...
...Secretary of the Academy, M. Robert Regnier, placed the definition of mémoire before the assembly. Said M. Louis Barthou, Minister of Justice, famed historian (TIME, Dec. 27) : "Human beings alone keep the memory of passing events; thus the word mémoire applies to the human race alone...