Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mission Indian Harry Chauca (Los Angeles A. C.) broke by 15 4/10 sec. a 25-year-old world's record set by Great Britain's Alfred E. Shrubb for the 6-mi. run. The new record...
...been several weeks since stock market daily turnovers have approached the records set by the Big Hoover Market and the Big, Bad Federal Reserve. Last week, however, the Manhattan Curb reported a day's turnover of 2,537,000 shares, third largest in Curb history and considerably exceeded only by Nov. 28, 1928 with its three million record. Artificial, however, was last week's large statistics, inasmuch as the high figure resulted chiefly from frenzied trading in one issue. Opening the day with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over...
...auctioneer looked inquiringly about. Quietly he added $5,000, ordered the vase to be removed. "Who's the buyer?" cried a woman. "The British public has a right to know that. The vase has been in our museum a century!" The buyer was the Duke of Portland. He had set his minimum at $250,000. He allowed newspapers to state that it would be returned to the British Museum. Britishers were happy, yet marvelled at the absence of U. S. moneybags. Some surmised that U. S. financiers are not interested in damaged goods. In 1845 the Portland vase was shattered...
...iron cot in the canvas sack that was a straitjacket, North 3-1 struggled in vain to escape; and, doped as he was, he did not then feel the cords cutting through flesh to the bone of his arms, his ankles, the back of his neck. Severe infection set in. North 3-1 survived but was badly crippled. The occasional complaint that reached the outside world was promptly explained as insane maundering of an unbalanced mind. For such is the inevitable stranglehold that a keeper has on his charges. Author North 3-1's testimony suggests severe indictment...
...work of Crowley the one man track team from Roxbury School in Connecticut. This star athlete took a first in the shot and discus with a second in the high and broad jumps; his heave of 50 feet, 8 1-2 inches from the record set last year by his teammate Kilcullen...