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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheduled for this summer, was held. The English universities won the meet by a 5 to 4 score-only first places counting and only nine events being scheduled. Since this first encounter between the Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track representatives six events have been added to the usual college list and all of these except the 220 yard dash have been incorporated in the meet between these joint teams. Thirty years ago the emphasis was largely on running events, the high and broad jumps and two weight throws being the only field contests. But even these seemed too many...
...Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual Athenian bull, but a couple of oxen, and I shall not speak again till next year...
...this, the U. S. correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...Inside Loop." The usual stunt loop-the-loop ("inside loop")?during which the plane rises and is on its back at the top of the loop? brought death to Lieut. Walter J. Ligon, reserve officer, and Ivan L. Hall, student aviator, at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., last week. The wings of their plane collapsed in coming out of a loop at an altitude of 2,000 feet...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...