Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were numerous outstanding events: 1) The 400-metre hurdles race was won by George Taylor, Grinnell College, who reduced a world's record of 53 seconds to 52 6/10 seconds; 2) J. C. Taylor, New York A. C, tied a recent world's record of 48 1/10 seconds when he hit the tape at the end of the 400-metre run; 3) F. H. Johnston, Illinois A. C, called it a draw with the four-year-old world record of 14 4/5 seconds when he puffed in from the 110-metre hurdles; 4) Chester Bowman of Syracuse traversed...
...Brooklyn, Pancho Villa, fighting Filipino and world's flyweight champion, knocked bamtamweight Bud Taylor, Terre Haute Terror, into a cocked hat in 12 rounds...
Political bands have learned a new tune, The Ladies are Coming. Four years ago women were first recognized by the National Republican organization. The form of the recognition consisted chiefly in the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton as Vice Chairman of the National Executive Committee. Next Fall Mrs. Upton is going to run in the 19th Ohio district as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congressman. Meanwhile she offered her resignation as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee...
...father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest of the cast perform in rather convulsive manner. Taylor Holmes particularly can be quite distinctly heard screaming throughout most...
...Field Artillery, Officers' Reserve Corps, will be awarded to the following: Thomas Elias Armstrong, of Denver, Colo.; Lawrence Soule Apsey, of Cambridge; Horace Lane Arnold, of Brookline; Walter Ray Baylies, of Boston; Wesley Meredith Behrens, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard Foster Howard, of Cambridge; John Casimir Mrowca, of Taylor, Pa.; William Joseph Will O'Hearn, of Roxbury, and William Morris Rosenbaum of Woodmere...