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Phinney was the fourth Crimson runner to finish in the recent heptagonal meet held in New York ending up in sixteenth place. A half miler, he won his minor numerals last year in track. He is nineteen years old and a graduate of Brown and Nichols...
Although not even considered to be in the race before the opening gun, Coach Mikkola's harriers displayed remarkable team strength by taking fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and twelfth to sixteenth over the muddy five mile course around Lake Carnegie. The Yardlings beat the Blue Yearlings but lost to Princeton in the shorter Freshman affair...
...Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered countries of Europe it was equally simple-if Moscow falls it will be the sixteenth defeat, without one victory. For the Communists, the Marxists-for innumerable reformers who wanted some form of collectivism because...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...
...world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...