Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last hundred metres. In London last July he tried to beat all the best Englishmen the same day ard nearly did it. Beavers beat him at four mile and Cyril ("The Great") Ellis at a mile, principally because proud Petkiewicz tried to keep ahead of all competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against runners who would be used up a little further on. This was not the cool policy of Nurmi, who measures his pace with a watch and stays in front out of scorn for human competition and because he cannot or does not like...
...religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race prejudice...
...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...
Although Wood has not competed directly against any of the men whom he will meet tonight, he is favored to win both the 500 and the century. Local swimming officials have watched him at work in the Y.M.C.A. tank and have spoken favorably of him. In the 100-yard race he will be matched against Gordon Conolly, senior diving and junior indoor 220-yard free-style champion. George Shinney of the Boy's Club of Boston, indoor senior 220-yard free-style champion and record-holder, John Sheesher of the Central Y.M.C.A. of Springfield, and Martin Ford of the Brookline...
...himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...