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...favorites will have to reckon with that team and especially with several potential Crimson record breakers before they can check up a victory to their credit. Besides Watters and Tibbetts, who are counted upon to contribute their known ability, several new stars are being watched. A bet that both Miller and Fletcher will break a record tomorrow would not be a wholly reckless one in view of their recent performances. Various records have frequently tottered when either of them was on the track. Last week the triangular one fell before Miller's thunderous stride, and the world's time...
...July 'will fall a grand eclipse of the sun which was not foreseen, or at least not thought of, at the last meeting of the Corporation. . . . How obstructive the eclipse will be as to the business of the Day is very obvious. We are not superstitious about it, but reckon it very inconvenient.' They therefore begged Mather to use his influence with the Overseers to have the date altered to the second Wednesday in July or to the first Tuesday, that is, July 1. The change was eventually made to July 1 but before Commencement Day arrived the President...
With evil intent comes "Doc" Madison and his gang to exploit the healing powers of the Patriarch. But they reckon without two things--faith and love. On the eve of success, Helena, who is posing as the Patriarch's long-lost granddaughter, suffers twinges of conscience. She finally tells Harry Evans and Michael Coogan that she can not go through with the conspiracy. The Patriarch is too good a man. But, the forces of good have not been working on Helena alone. Both Harry and Michael have found in this little village a love which has shown them the error...
...points. Comparative times and records promise an extremely close match; it is for the track team to continue its good work and take the outcome of the meet out of the reach of the critics' calculations by again adding the indeterminable elemen of fight which no critic can reckon in points...
...only justifications for making that day one of extravagant pageantry seems to be that it affords the people an opportunity to fittingly celebrate the event which they have brought about--this argument, as old as the Republic, is advanced today. But reckon the railroad fare from any place further away than New York to Washington and the hotel rates in Washington and you can get a good idea of how great a part the people of the United States are going to take in the ceremony. The ceremony for them will consist principally of paying the expenses...