Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges. Dan Moody, a young fellow of only 32 (tall, blond, good-natured), was elected Attorney General of Texas at the same time that Mrs. Ferguson was elected Governess. He had a majority of 400,000 (whereas Mrs. Ferguson's majority was only 90,000). He has attacked the record of the Highway Commission, claiming that it has spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband of the Governess is declared...
...undefeated University harriers added another victory to their record yesterday afternoon when they defeated the M. I. T. runners 24 to 31. First place was taken by R. G. Luttman '28, for the first time this year, W. L. Tibbetts '26 and E. C. Haggerty '27 crossing the line together in the tie for second place...
...spite of the cold afternoon, and the occasional snow flurries, Luttman negotiated the course in the comparatively fast time of 28 minutes and 42 seconds, which is just 14 seconds slower than the time Captain Tibbetts made in setting the record for the track last week, when he won the Dartmouth race, under much more favorable conditions...
...cases in which the motives for extending aid to an athlete are not clear to the Committee of the Three Chairmen, that committee shall take into account failure on the part of the athlete to maintain a creditable record in his academic course in character, scholarship, and willingness to meet his obligations, as evidence that a continuance of financial aid to the athlete on grounds of character, scholarship, and conduct seems unwise, and that therefore the committee may have to declare him ineligible...
...justly proud of his work on Saturday, however, and considered that it was a distinct credit to his prognosticating record. He analyzed with absolute accuracy the scoring power of Brown, Chicago, Boston College and Williams, and although he was forced to bear up under ridicule on Saturday for his guess on the Colgate-Princeton game, he considers that his error of only one point in the final score was a veritable achievement...