Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over night, the trial became a cause celebre. Newspapers devoted many long columns of what they almost unanimously called a crime de charité. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...
...expedition is to investigate the Sargasso Sea, a drifting mass of seaweed in mid-Atlantic, about the latitude of Florida and the Canaries and about the longitude of the Newfoundland Banks. It is only gradually being disentangled from the popular legend surrounding it, although Christopher Columbus himself ran afoul of it on his first voyage to America. It has been asserted that the weeds are so thick that they entangle whole ships which never escape...
...also diametrically opposed to the truth as upheld by facts. The veracity of the opinion that I have always held that the training received in competition helped rather than hindered scholastic work was proved by the record of the 1924 CRIMSON Board of Editors, which I ran across in one of the University CRIMSON. Not only did six of the editors graduate with honors, but four of them were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
...twelve yard lead which Rogers, Robb, and Lundell held but did not increase. The time, 3.08, was only 1 4-5 seconds slower than the fastest mark of the evening made by Georgetown. The Freshman relay team running Tech had a walkaway in 3.16 1-5 after Luttman ran away from Schwartz on the second...
...competing for the New England Championship in the 40 yard dash, won the crown from J. J. Sullivan of Boston College by inches in five seconds flat. He later won third in the K. of C. dash. In the Mayor Curley mile, the feature event of the meet, Tibbetts ran a strong race in 4.30 although Larrivee and Hahn led him to the tape. Larrivee's time of 4.25 3-5 set a record for the Mechanics Building track. Jones with a handicap of four inches took second in the K. of C. high jump...