Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...submit that each fisherman ought to catch at least 50 fish during the season. I should like more than that myself, but that ought to be demanded as a minimum . . . provided it includes one big one for purposes of indelible memory, conversation and historic record...
...What plan do I follow when I pardon somebody? First I examine his War record. Evidently, if he is maimed or has won medals or passed several years in the trenches he has higher chances for clemency than one who has not. Then I examine the state of his health and his family. Finally, I examine what the deportee himself has to say for himself...
Traveling at the speed of a sprinter, thrusting a bamboo pole in the ground at the proper moment, Sabin W. Carr of Yale flung himself over a bar that was poised exactly 14 feet above the ground, established a new world's pole vault record. The highest previous flight, 13 feet, 11⅜ inches, was made by Charles Hoff a Norwegian...
...professors of the physics department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced last week the invention of a colorimeter which may displace human judgment in matching colors. By means of the colorimeter, the record of the color of a gown, a ribbon or even a flower can be made in Manhattan and transmitted by telegraph to San Francisco to be matched accurately...
...representing Exeter in the Harvard Interscholastic Meet, under miserable weather conditions, he travelled the half mile distance in 1 minute 68 1-6 seconds to break the meet record for this event set up by W. J. Bingham '16 when the present Harvard athletic director was Exeter's track captain...