Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year for the first time the 440 yard dash will be run in two separate races, the places to be determined by comparative times. In the past a large number of entries has resulted in serious crowding on the track. All events of shorter distance will be run off in the usual three heats, trials, semi-finals, and finals...
Cornell is outstandingly weak in all three of these middle distance runs and may be considered as virtually out of them. Treman is the best Ithican entered in the two shorter runs, but his full possibilities are unknown. It it likely, however, that he may upset the dope and place...
...span of a day. When the Harvard system is criticized by someone viewing it from outside, the principal objection is usually based on the question of wasted time. Harvard meets this problem by taking into consideration the length of the various vacations: in almost every instance these are shorter than the corresponding ones at other colleges. It is a case then of using time to better advantage...
...must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...
With the days getting steadily shorter and the streets of Cambridge assuming already their mid-winter liquidity, the Vagabond was not surprised to find on inspection of a calendar last night that only another week intervenes before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation...