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Tootell, the present I. C. A. A. A. A. record holder was a young man of 22, six feet one inch in height and weighing 210 pounds at his heaviest. Johnny Merchant of California was in my opinion the greatest little man that ever threw the hammer. Merchant weighed about 185 pounds and stood about five feet ten inches in height; he held the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in 1922. Another great little man was Bill Quinn, the former field coach at Harvard, who weighed only 163 pounds and could throw the hammer 165 feet...
These disheartening movements were widely explained as being caused, in part, by the tactics of British bankers, who threw their foreign currencies on the market to protect the pound from depreciation due to the British strike. In this they were successful, for the pound scarcely wavered...
...Charlotte, N. C., one Ralph Hepburn, automobile racer, moving at 125 miles an hour, swerved crazily, threw on his brakes, drew up at the side of the track. Mechanics found him almost unconscious from pain. A sparrow had flown against his goggles, broken them, forced a piece of glass under his eyelid...
...other words, the two hundred ballots which threw the general vote against the proposal were drawn wholly from the two middle classes, the Freshmen being non-committal, and the Seniors showing a slightly favorable margin. No certain conclusions can be drawn from these figures, but they seem to indicate that those students who have been in college longest and are most familiar with conditions show a tendency to favor subdivision of the College into smaller units...
...Nevada, an expedition from the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), called in by Governor James Graves Scrugham to examine the great cliff city (Pueblo Grande de Nevada) which he had discovered personally (TIME, March 23, 1925), threw up sand all winter over a stretch six miles long, baring abodes ranging from scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother...