Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other high spot of the meet will come in the 100 yard dash when Castleman of Virginia will race against the Crimson's best sprinters, Howard, Robb, Broome and Captain Merrill. Castleman's time for this distance is a consistent 10 1-5 seconds. Howard has equalled this time on occasions, but the Virginia sprinter is generally conceded a superiority in this event which will probably bring him a first place this afternoon...
...James H. Breasted, in the spot-light for his thankless task of peace-making in the TutankhAmen controversy, has published through the New York Historical Society a bulletin on an Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology...
...defeat of Harvard was almost the only bright spot in Yale's season last year but this spring a more successful outcome is predicated. Syracuse, Cornell and Princeton games lead up to the Harvard encounter in Boston on May 24 and the Yale team will do well to withstand the strain of such a succession of hard games...
...hands of Columbia last Saturday. Their pitcher Outwater received rough treatment from the Morningside Heights batsmen, who found him for 13 hits and nine runs in six innings. Kaiser is the most highly touted of the Seton Hall players. His work at third base was the one bright spot in his team's showing last Saturday...
...between the different scenic effects in the two acts of "Who's Who" is one of the most startling imaginable. While that in the second act is most gorgeous and elaborate, the first act is played on an undecorated stage. The comedy skit "Antony and Cleopatra" is the high spot of the first act and yet the colored comedians perform as if in rehearsal, on the bare boards...