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Yale opened its season with a terrific rush against North Carolina on October 6, and rolled, up 59 points, and almost repeated the feat on the next Saturday by downing Georgia 40-0. The opposition was not strong enough to test Yale in any way, but only proved it had a wealth of material, especially of fast backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE'S SIX VICTIMS BEAR WITNESS TO EARLY SEASON PROWESS OF BLUE ELEVEN | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

Lieutenants Steel and Hunt of the Army performed one of the most difficult of maneuvers, flying with wings vertical for some distance, with the fuselage supplying the lift instead of the wings-a feat only possible at the tremendous speed of the modern airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Carnival | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...nearly enough for the Navy. Lieutenants Williams and Brow have been indulging in a friendly game of record-smashing which is as close as the most rabid fan for races could wish. At the present time both of these gentlemen have to their credit the feat of travelling at the rate of four and a half miles a minute, and both accomplished this on the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEED | 11/8/1923 | See Source »

...rule which seems to hold in almost every form of sport. Some of the most illuminating examples of the truth of this statement are to be round in Anglo-American golf competitions. Walter Travis won in England in 1930, and Harold Hilton duplicated his feat at least once in America, but except for these two, foreign invaders have very rarely triumphed over native sons. There have, of course, been others. Jimmy Wilde, for example, probably the world's greatest flyweight, could win anywhere, and the brothers Doherty of England were as easily supreme at tennis in their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPSOM VS. BELMONT | 10/20/1923 | See Source »

...island home, bound for an unknown destination. Bavaria is virtually a Monarchy and Prince Rupprecht is hailed everywhere as King. The need for a real leader in Germany was said to be getting greater every day and it seems that a restoration of the Monarchy is not an impossible feat. Moreover, it appears that Great Britain and Italy would be willing to recognize a Monarchy in Germany, providing that a Hohenzollern were not chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dark Days | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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