Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Last week in Kansas City Ray Conger beat him and beat his record for 1,000 yards with a time of 2:11. Hahn stopped running. He walked to the tape with a disgusted expression and said that Conger stuck an elbow in him at the turn. None of the officials...
With the recent vote of the Athletic Council of the University of Illinois that henceforth all sports at that university are to be "major" sports, the much discussed problem of the place of athletics in the college curriculum takes a new and interesting turn. In September of this year the regulation will become active, and from then on major letters will be awarded to the members of all athletic teams at Illinois. The decision was reached after consultation with the minor sport captains, the opinion of the majority inclining apparently toward the view that to award major insignia...
Prohibition, the curse of America; Prohibition, the blessing of the age; and now, Prohibition, the subject of an epic by the talented M. Pillionel, who promises to turn the shafts of his Gallic wit on this topic in the very near future...
...Music and aviation have two things in common," he said, as a chorus of Lettish singers came off the stage, "they inspire friendly relations. The recent trans oceanic flights have done a great deal to bring about tolerance and under standing, and these in turn are the basis for friendship...
Life, for the humorist, is a bizarre thing. He views it through eyes that select fancies and foibles and reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading...