Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again opens the season with a race against the Crimson crews on April 26. Harvard, Navy, Pennsylvania, and M. I. T. all compete in a quadrangular regatta on the Charles river on May 17. The following Saturday the crew will make a trip to Ithaca where a race will be held with Cornell and Syracuse. The Yale regatta will complete the season on June 20 at New London. In addition, the third University crew will compete in the American Rowing Association Regatta at Philadelphia on May 31, while a crew composed of University and Freshman substitutes will meet the Yale...
...discovered that certain measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found on the West Coast of Central Africa and the second race is found in the mountains of the Eastern Congo separated from the first by 750 miles of tropical jungle...
...dogs are conveniently discovered to be racing hounds, in addition to their other accomplishments, and they save the day for their benefactors by winning the race upon which has been staked every cent of all parties concerned...
...Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read Kataev's The Embezzlers...
...question of whether any white people should hold and exploit a tropical country with native labor as is now being done is going to become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor remedies. Assimilation of the few by the many is more logical. But race friction usually hinders assimilation. Thus closes the vicious circle making another war inevitable. One Thompson remedy for population troubles: the dissemination of birth control information among growing peoples such as Italians, Chinese, East Indians...