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...jumps and weights Harvard is weak, although Berglund. Captain Dunker and Jones may be able to collect some stray points. Men like Went-worth of Colby in the 35-pound weight. Norton of Georgetown, in the high jump and shot put, and Bowen of Cornell, a record breaker in both weights last Saturday, will probably clean up in those events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RUNNERS HOPE TO UPSET PREDICTIONS | 3/6/1925 | See Source »

...University congratulates the Dean that he has decided to go on with his work of legal research, and not to stray into the tempting field of university administration. What he would gain through influencing the future course of one of the strongest midwestern institutions, he might lose through leaving his chosen work. Dean Pound has only just begun his work in jurisprudence; the past is a promise of his future achievement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET JOY BE UNRESTRAINED | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

...excuses and explanations, in whimpering that the people have been deceived or bought; that the organization of the Republicans is invincible; that what worn and stale stump-speech slang calls 'the interests' are too strong or our foes too cunning for us, or in raking about for stray scraps of comfort or loose fragments of rainbow hopes here and there-mostly there. We have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities. Either the people are wrong or we Democrats here in Congress who have made the record for our party the last four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Suppressed | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...business he gave attention to the minutest details of every enterprise. His adroitness in pickiing up stray pins was so startling that his office boys were instructed to see that there were none about when important conferences pended, since his zeal for pin-picking distracted his mind from other topics. Twelve years after the death of his first wife (née Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan), he married Eleanor Robson, actress. Her wedding cut short the engagement of her theatrical company. With characteristic generosity, Mr. Belmont paid every member of the troupe a year's salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: August Belmont | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, a Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore indicted The Baltimore Post. As dogs go politically nowadays, this was a homeless stray; the Post supported La Follette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Woodlawn | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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