Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when, writing in the Saturday Evening Post on "The Navy and Economy," he had charged the Navy with being poorly administered, overofficered. Personally offended, Coolidge Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur decided the articles were in unbecoming taste, relieved their author of his command at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Since then Admiral Magruder has been on full pay, but inactive. Last week Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, after conference with the President, ordered him back to duty...
...Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell, at Travers...
...crack of the gun Frank Wykoff, whom Charlie ("World's Fastest Human") Paddock picked as winner, was first out of his holes. He led at 20, 30, 40 yards. Bracey drew alongside him. They were even at 50 yards. Bracey went ahead, far ahead, led at 60, 70, 80. Russell Sweet drew even at 90, was a foot ahead at 95. Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape...
...possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government...
When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders...