Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...
...annual University boxing championship will start on Monday, March 26, at 4.30 o'clock, it was announced last night at the Harvard Athletic Association. On that day the preliminary contests will get under way, with the finals being held on March...
Both the University and Freshman fencing teams will see action this afternoon when the University foilsmen meet Boston University and the first-year swordsmen engage Andover at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The University clash is scheduled to start at 3.30 o'clock, while the Freshman meeting with Andover will begin at 5 o'clock...
...whistle the Seniors though long in the water and powerful in the pull through showed a dangerous tendency of shooting the tail which caused a noticeable check. The Junior Crew, likewise weak at the start, were a trifle slow in the catch and sloppy on the slide. Meanwhile, the Sophomores were hampered by a crab at No. 7 which caused a slight panic. Crabs at Nos. 5 and 6 entered the boat later on in the race. Ragged as was the start the boats tore through the water. The crowd roared advice from the shore but the cox after several...
...RISES TO PARNASSUS-Henry Fairfield Osborn-Princeton University Press ($2.50). Ages and ages ago, but eons after primates became distinctly monkeys, apes and men, mankind began his fumbling rise to earthly supremacy. The start was probably on the plateaus of Central Asia and the first men were certainly runners. They hunted to live. Descendants of theirs who wandered into other plateaus of the continents continued the hunting life. Others traveled into forests and became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types...