Word: scholz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding event of the outstanding events came when Jackson V. Scholz,* New York A. C. sprinter, tripped the cinders with fairy feet for 20 9/10 twinkling seconds and won the semi-final 200-metre dash by a magnificent performance in which for the second time in one day he gave the world's record of 21 1/5 seconds a sick headache. In the finals this modern Mercury sped down the track in 21 seconds, tying his first effort on the previous day. By all odds, the gods had marked him down for an Olympic wreath...
...Oxonian who is asked to write about Oxford for the benefit of possible candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships is bewildered by the multitude of things that might be said. First of all one might mention two first rate sources of information: (1) a little book by Scholz and Hornbeck called "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships", and (2) "The Oxford University Handbook." The latter is authoritative though unofficial--the official University Calendar, or "catalogue" as we should say, is fearfully and wonderfully made, and not to be recommended to the beginner. I see that the latest edition of the Handbook...