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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. A. Wachter pointed out after the game that the forwards are the weak points in the team. He also stated that size, speed, and erratic performance were the elements to be considered in the stiff practice sessions to be held next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURT QUINTET YIELDS BEFORE FAST INVADERS | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

Laurentic. Another maiden trip completed last week was that of the White Star Line's Laurentic, from Liverpool to Manhattan. She is 604 feet long and was built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Travel Notes | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Practice for the University hockey squad, which began this week, has been featured by special attention to the rules going into effect for the first time this season. They will make the game faster and will put a premium on speed and ability rather than mere power, a tendency which finds its origin in the rules governing Canadian hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ICE AND COURT TEEM WITH ACTIVITY AS WINTER SPORTS INVADE LIMELIGHT | 12/2/1927 | See Source »

...Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard" the public alse over so gently implied. And Mr. Ford replies with better lines, quiet, more power, more speed, in a still veiled Juggernaut of a motor millenium that can butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

...wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William do not suggest the comparison; he rides the fictitious bicycle of his fictions with grace, speed, confidence and dexterity, though lacking, perhaps, the vigor and finesse of a six-day champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring Bones | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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