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Sporting England flocked to murky Liverpool, there to watch the greatest of steeplechases. By plane, motor, train, boat, cart they came and, despite fabled post-War depression, proved so numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Some Day | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

With a slippery ball, on a soggy field, Northwestern took Indiana down the skids, 21 to 0.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foot Ball | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

On a field as soggy as a silo floor the team of the University of Nebraska, popularly known as the Cornhuskers, made ducks of Drake, 21 to 0. Iowa, with a plunging backfield, beat Colorado Teachers' College, 24 to 0.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

There was a nagging drizzle from the dull skies of a late and soggy London afternoon. Hundreds of smart motors idled in a line extending from Admiralty Arch to the gates of Buckingham Palace, which were locked. For rather more than an hour sopping but irrepressible plebeians wandered up and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Courts Imperial | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

The game which the Freshman baseball team was to have played this afternoon against Middlesex has been called off according to an announcement made last night. The reason given for the cancellation is that the Middlesex diamond was in too soggy a condition because of the recent adverse weather conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929-MIDDLESEX BALL GAME CALLED OFF-WET GROUNDS | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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