Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classic struggle will be going on. Here, unfortunately, Harvard is not so well represented. Jaakko Mikkola has had a whole string of crack long distance men in the past, and names like Pen Hallowell, Art Foote and Bob Playfair are still remembered. But this year the only two miler worth much is Henry Marcy, and he has been laid up with illness; although he will be in there tomorrow, he is far from the top of his form and will probably not pick up much better than a fourth place...
...relays, Yale has nothing to stop Cornell's crack one mile team; while Frank Kanaly will start Congdon, Pierce, Holderness and either Fox or Hamilton in a two mile quartet that is expected to do some where's around 8:05. There is no decent shot putter worth much at New Haven, and the mile situation doesn't look too good because the best miler, Woodland, will be fighting his hardest in the two mile. Cornell's Johnny Meaden looks like the mile winner with Alex Northrop having an outside chance to topple him. Meaden won a comparatively slow...
...selecting Professor Tinker Harvard has chosen an alien genius of undoubted popularity. Harvard has never evinced any false modesty over the worth of her own sons. Through the Norton Professorship, however, she is able to ward off the spring fever of complacency with a salutary drink now and then from the waters of outlying springs. This tonic is of considerable concern to Bostonians, as well as students, and is generally offered to the public. Especially since the professorship is thus turned to a popular purpose must the choice be a popular...
...Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...
...true story, it has its lighter moments, which Author Harding plays up for all they are worth; and because the story goes on so long, as stories in real life are apt to, its tired finale is as welcome as a happy ending...