Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected capturing of all three places in the sprints helped the Crimson total greatly. H. W. Burns '28 and T. E. Dunn '29, running fine races, backed Miller up splendidly and shut out both opposing colors...
...glare over the Army polo field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive...
...summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut, rose and spoke: "It's come, boys...
...Andover Saturday the Freshman track team suffered a 52 to 29 defeat in the first dual meet of the year. The first year men won three first places in the track events, but were overwhelmed by Andover's power in the weight and field events., being shut out in the shot put and pole vault...
...strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping on singing. I just stooped down and tore off the entire reel of lace, put it into the jewel box that I have to carry, and slammed the cover shut. I have never before or since received such enthusiastic applause as after that...