Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the point of view of a contest, the mile relay, with each man running three laps, developed the most interest. Not until the third leg was the Tech runner left behind, Robb gaining a 30 yard lead, which Captain Merrill, in the anchor position, stretched to 45. The University medley team, made up of easily the most brilliant combination, made fast time, but met little opposition...
...attempt only to give the men a line on starts and proper running positions, for use in spring work." In 1919, Coach Teschner took part in the Inter-Allied games in Paris. In the two dashes he took second, being headed by Paddock in both races. He also ran anchor on the two victorious United States relay teams. He holds the College record in the 100 yard dash jointly with W. A. Shick '05, the time being 9 4-5 seconds...
...American balloon, constricted by her anchor rope, burst before the starting signal came. The remaining 10 cast themselves off upon the mercy of the furious elements...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...
...painfully and dangerously and many times. Passengers are partially enclosed and protected from wind and rain, yet have a magnificent view. The inside of the cabin is like the inside of a high-class automobile. Every detail of control, seating and power plant installation is perfect. Mooring rings and anchor provide for any kind of emergency landing. When a ship such as the Graylark is compared with the seaplanes used during the War, such as the HS-2, equipped with the same Liberty motor, but painfully making 68 to 70 miles per hour, huge in wing spread, clumsy to handle...