Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Team B will take on the Newton Centre Squash Tennis Club this afternoon at Newton. The Newton Centre team is in eighth place in Class B of the State Squash league while Team B is now leading the other teams by a wide margin. The feature match of this contest will probably be between P. M. Lenhart 27, number one on Team B and P. M. Goddard '18, who is first man on the Newton team...
Haggerty should finish near the front of the handicap 600, provided the number of entries is not too great. When fifteen or twenty men try to run on a track eight feet wide with a turn every twenty-five yards, the men at scratch are faced not only with gaining distance but with fighting their way past greatly congested traffic...
...wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...
...Married Men. In one brilliant burst of writing, Vincent Lawrence has sliced wide for inspection a bitter, all too prevalent tragedy. For no reason at all except that they are five years married and that she loves suddenly another man, a wife tires of her husband. This she must tell him, hating herself therefor, yet powerless before the fact. Tomorrow she will run away...
...Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been retreating in disorder, had time to remarshall; Geeraert was credited, doubtless justly, with having helped to save it from destruction. Last Christmas Day, when he seemed at the point of death, he was decorated with...