Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world's interscholastic record of 48 4-5 seconds made by J. E. Meredith, now of Pennsylvania, when he was at Mercersburg Academy. Willcox let M. B. Orr, the interscholastic champion, lead the race for the first 220 yards, and then suddenly passed the latter by a beautiful burst of speed. From then on Orr repeatedly tried to overtake Willcox, but the latter proved the better, finishing about two yards ahead of the Exeter...
...soft track may be held largery responsible, were the rule in the spring handicap games held in the Stadium yesterday. One of the best races of the afternoon was run by W. J. Bingham '16, who won the 220-yard dash from J. S. Foley '15, with a fine burst of speed. B. Z. Nelson '15 showed up well in the 100-yard event, coming in first with a safe margin. There was keen competition in the shot-put, in which H. R. Hardwick placed first. The general slowness of the meet may be further accounted for by the fact...
...longer will late wayfarers be compelled to wend their course in pitchy darkness, and never more will Lampy be able to use the "pseudo-lamp-post" as humor for its picturesque cover. These same pillars of illumination have burst gloriously from the embryo, the Gay White Way now dominates our nocturnal existence, and the twenty-four hour day is successfully innovated...
...Yale side of the field during the recent game in the Stadium, the Yale crowd set up a great noise, in order to drown, if possible, the signals given to the Harvard team. So also, whenever Brickley prepared to make a drop or place kick, the Yale "rooters" burst forth in shouts and cat-calls in their effort to "rattle...
...Barron, Jr., '14,, led from the start in the quarter-mile and after a gruelling sprint down the long straight-away, burst the tape three yards ahead of Wilkie, the Yale favorite, on whose heels came J. C. Rock '15. The time 49s., equals the record made by J. F. Haigh of Harvard...