Word: ithaca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff brush in the last ten yards with Barber. California captain. Miller, the University hope in the short dash, won without extending himself in the third heat with a mark of 9 9-10 seconds, the same as turned in by Hussey of Boston College and Russell, the Ithaca leader, in the succeeding two preliminaries. Lundell, the second Harvard sprinter, ran a hard race to take third in the second heat in 10 1-5 seconds and qualify for today's contests. This afternoon's century is expected to be a fight all the way to the tape with Miller...
...such a state of affairs came to pass today we should say, "Ah, an eclipse." British astronomers have, according to despatches last week, determined that the only total solar eclipse visible from Ithaca, home of Ulysses, during the first quarter of the 12th Century B. C., occurred at 11:41 a.m. local mean time, April 16, 1177 B. C. From this deduction the Trojan War was dated 1197 to 1187 B. C.; Ulysses' wanderings...
Athletes who are strong and mature are best fitted to become consistent distance runners. We have an exception to prove the rule in the case of Tell Berna, which provides conclusive proof that speed can be obtained by an athlete with little more than persistency. Berna was an Ithaca High School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian...
Coach Lydecker's stick wielders open their vacation schedule with the Cornell game in Ithaca on Wednesday, and then go to Schenectady to meet Union College on Saturday. The game which it was hoped might be arranged with Colgate has been definitely abandoned because of the way the Hamilton collegians' schedule is arranged...
...astronomical data available up to the present time, have brought to light the fact that a total eclipse of the sun did occur in the year 1177 B. C. This is the only solar eclipse which happened between 1240 B. C. and 1177 B. C. on the island of Ithaca...