Word: track
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talkies" -"They demand too close attention." ¶ Last week Billy returned to the White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy Opossum. . . . Precautions will be taken to preserve his health and spirits for the further needs of Prince Georges County high school teams...
...port of Dairen to Changchun, where it connects with the C. E. R. Ingeniously wangled from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, the S. M. R. is today worth $220,000,000, keeps the Japanese Colony of Korea fed with Manchurian wheat and soya beans. Its 700 miles of track are guarded by 20,000 soldiers against just such an attack as last week befell...
...State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle...
George Simpson of Ohio State, holder of the world's unofficial record (9 4/10 sec.) for the 100 yd. dash, traveled about 1,200 miles to Denver for the 54th annual senior track meet of the National A. A. U. There, waiting to beat him, were Eddie Tolan, little bespectacled Negro from the University of Michigan and Western Conference champion; Frank Wykoff, defending A. A. U. champion; Claude Bracey, 1928 N. C. A. A. champion; Russell Sweet, Pacific A. A. U. champion; Cy Leland, Southern Collegiate champion. But George Simpson never ran. Two days before the race which somebody...
...very human, very rambling account. Moral, he writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...