Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lindley, who stroked Yale to victory in the Paris Olympics of 1924, the same year that he set the beat for. Yale's triumph over the University crew over the four-mile course on the Thames in Connecticut, and Wardwell, who will row at No. 7, are Yale men making the trip. H. W. Robbins, captain of the Union Boat Club, is a graduate of Syracuse...
...their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made to pay a fine, he launched a counter-at-tack and set out to show the town what a real blue Sunday was like...
...were called to our mark. We were set. The gun was fired. We were off together the first time. Slowly Abrahams pulled away, and he broke the tape well ahead. He deserved to win, because he was the best man that...
...quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults and Abe broke through his service but after the first set Tilden's long arms flailed faster and he ran the match out, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next...
...only part of a larger plan whereby, when the present deal is completed, Chrysler will enter the General Motors Corporation through an exchange of one share of General Motors common for two shares of Chrysler and that Walter P. Chrysler will become president of General Motors." That may be set down as improbable...