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Swimming'. At Les Tourelles, Count Clary, President of the French Olympic Committee, distributed prizes to dripping aquatic champions. Four-fifths of the recipients wore the U. S. shield...
...spectators assembled in the Harvard Stadium to witness the final Olympic track and field tryouts for the U. S. The day was wet, muggy, miserable, autumnal ; the ground was more like a soggy sponge than an athletic field; nevertheless, 104 athletes won the right to wear the U. S. shield at the Olympic Games at Colombes (Paris) next month...
...expected, Loomis won the silver shield given by the H. A. A. with a total of 20 points; Exeter was second with 17; and Newton and Andover tied for third with 14 each...
...part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
...apparently, Ileana knows "the job." C That the queen of a famed Rumanian Tzigane tribe made the following prophesy: "You will wed with a fair Prince whose kingdom shall be over all seas and in all lands. You will wed for love, and love will be your word and shield. The crown which they will set upon your head will be heavy, but very bright, and love will ease your brow of its weight...