Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell's record is also characterized by consistency, for the Bellboys have a long string of seconds, thirds, and fourths to their credit. An interesting feature of the 1938-39 fall and winter House athletics is that the total number of points lost by defaults has shrunken appreciably from last year's figures. So far, 79 points have been lost by defaults as against 168 thus far in the 1937-38 season...
Smashing the record of Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42, Frank Pope, a Junior at Franklin and Marshall College, swallowed three live goldfish today to take the intercollegiate championship...
...basis of incomplete returns, Dunster House seems well on the way towards a new all-time record for broken windows with 12 panes shattered by snowballs within the last week. Lowell is second with six fractured transparencies. Eliot occupies the cellar position as usual with a clean slate...
...really sensational feat of the evening was provided by Princeton's incorrigibly fast medley team. Breaking its own American and unofficial world's record for the 12 laps. Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, and Hank Van Oss turned in the unbelievable time of 2:51.9. It is calculated that Van de Weghe did his 100 in 59.2, Hough the breastroke leg in 59.3, and Van Oss the free-style century in 53.4 to hang up a record that is likely to stand for many years...
...first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...