Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds. Leness, who finished third, was the mainstay of the M. I. T. team last year and is known as one of the best middle distance runners in the east. W. H. Hulsman '29 granted a 15-yard handicap, was the second to cross the line. He ran on last year's Freshman relay team...
...Longworth, the hostess, would of course lead the way: "As a child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea...
...Captain Wright perused this letter from Viscount Gladstone, son of the great "Mr. Gladstone," another letter from Viscount Gladstone was delivered to the Secretary of the exclusive Bath Club, to which both Captain Wright and Lord Gladstone belonged. "Mr. Wright is a foul fellow!" ran this second letter; and as a result Captain Wright was dropped from the Bath Club...
...year and how he is sure the boys will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally may tell the candidates that they are all going to have a great time together. But the big idea is work...
...came from Italy some 40 years ago, Carlo Salvatore Cicero, with shears and razors; a barber, aged 16. He found work in the old Astor House and ran a shop of his own in Pearl Street after hours. It was a heyday of whiskers; one's pompadour was as important as one's politics...