Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of a burning debate on this subject arose Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France, to plead with Premier Herriot to recede from his position before it was too late and to warn him that he ran the risk of uniting all French Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave...
Last week, Nurmi ran in Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson...
...improvement of Herbert Kobes '26, have made the choice of a team difficult. Allen will be switched to the quarter-mile distance on the one-mile team, a race better suited to his ability than the half. Watters will be scen in action for the first time since he ran in the Olympics at Paris last summer. He only recently became eligible by passing off a language requirement. Although he has contented him-self with light practice to date, Coach Farrell counts on hard work this week as sufficient to bring his time for the half under two minutes...
...present Kane, Allen, and Lundell seem surest of their places. Kane is probably the University's most versatile track man. Besides equalling the time of any man on the squad in the 440, he could make a berth on the two-mile team. As a Freshman he ran a fast mile on a winning intercollegiate medley relay team. He is also a broad jumped and placed against Yale last spring in the high and low hurdles. Kane, Allen and Robb ran on the one-mile relay team which was barely nosed out by Yale for the indoor intercollegiate championships last...
...Author. Mr. Felix Isman was once the business partner of Weber and Fields. With them he ran the Broadway Theatre, Manhattan, and produced many successes. They begged him to write this book about them. When it ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, Wesley W. Stout was given credit as joint author. In the foreword Mr. Isman (an Elk, a Mason, now a realtor) thanks Mr. Stout for his assistance...