Word: trying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaten by Versey of Colby on several ocasions, and has not yet proved that he has the finish to outdistance the Colby two-miler, but the only other collegiate runner who can offer him opposition is Kerr of Cornell, whom Playfair beat by a full half lap in their Tri Meet race...
...winter season, is one of the outstanding prospects of the team. Though his team-mate, Dick Dayes, is out of competition for the year, Green's performance guarantees Harvard the five points for first place in this event against any opponent on the Harvard schedule. Green set a new Tri Meet record in his last start, and track fans expect that he will set a new world's record before the season...
Playfair took fifth in the 3200-meters which was won by a Manhattan runner. Bruce Kerr of Cornell, Saturday's Tri-Meet opponent for the Harvard distance man, took second...
...plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars...