Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow races wake...
...Mother Cleo," by T. G. Ratcliffe '35, and "The Wake," by J. F. Joseph '33, were both given honorable mention in the announcements of the final selections...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...
Winning their sixteenth meet in 18 starts the Varsity swimming team left the Pittsburgh swimmers in their wake by a score of 52 to 23 at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night. Losing only the low board diving event the Crimson allowed but four seconds and five thirds to the Pittsburgh team, which up to Friday night has been undefeated in its last 14 meets...