Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruins are depending on Bob Schaper, captain of last year's Freshman squad, in the sprints, Matt Soltysiak, the greatest all-around swimmer in Brown's history, in the breastroke or free-style, and Bud Wilcox, New England record-holder in the 150 yard backstroke, in the dorsal events...
...respectively, times which Lonnie and Harley Stowell, Crimson sprinters, have not equaled so far. Former intercollegiate record-holder Graham Cummin '38 was pressed to the limit last year by Bud Wilcox, Bruin backstroker. He is known to be good for just under 1:40 in the 150-yard event, so Art Bosworth will have to swim his best time ever in order to keep...
...Harvard passer, standing only four yards behind the line of scrimmage, completed a teas to a mate on Yale's 41 yard line. The receiver, in trying to lateral, threw the ball forward. This player in turn dashed down the field and was chased out of bounds on the Yale 21 yard line, but the referee in bringing the ball into the field of play put it down on the 16. And not one of the infractions was called...
...Berlin was begun a great "treason trial," whose size and scope was an embarrassment to the Nazis themselves. Out of the yard of Berlin's grim Moabit Prison rolled a green police van one morning last week. Through Berlin's streets it rumbled, finally pulled up in the well-kept grounds of the dread People's Court building on the Bellevuestrasse. Three prisoners-Ernst Niekisch, Dr. William Drexler and Karl Troegler-emerged from the van and were hustled into the great hall of the Court. On the bench sat their judges-three red-robed justices, a police...
From a high-school civics book: "Dictatorship . . . makes much of national unity. . . . Convicts doing the lockstep in a prison yard are a perfect example of unity, but we do not envy them. . . . Hitler and Mussolini . . . talk much of the virtues which fascism fosters. . . . But fascism has no monopoly of courage and sacrifice...