Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meredith Nicholson, Indiana novelist of national repute:f "'The Ku Klux Klan and its brood-corrupt politicians-have cost Indiana at least a billion dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that...
...often the case with able Midlanders wherever found, Earle Martin's origins can be traced to that hotbed of literati and journalists, Indiana. He was born at Edinburgh, Ind., in 1874, and 20 years later got his first job from Meredith Nicholson, now famed as a novelist, on the Indianapolis News. In 1896 he joined the Scripps forces as a "police cub" under Charles F. Mosher of the Cincinnati Post, whose managing editor he became within three years...
...officials are W. A. Schlick '05, for four years winner of both sprints against Yale, who will be one of the timers; Walter Tufts, an H man in 1913, who will measure the discus tosses; and W. J. Bingham '16, who for two years forced the great Ted Meredith to new intercollegiate records in the half mile...
...college generations no less than six events averaged better than in the post-war period of similar length. One reason for this odd development traces to the presence of two of the world's most wonderful athletes in the pre-war era: John Paul Jones of Cornell and Ted Meredith of Penn. But that does not explain why the furlong sprint, the shot put and the pole vault averages for the post-war period have failed to measure up to the figures established in the eight years before the war. Here are the figures...
...Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith's 47 2-5 at Cambridge in 1916 was run under about similar conditions...