Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Legate third. In the running high jump the contestants were Danforth, '77; Walker, '77; and Hubbard, '78. Danforth and Walker failed at 4 ft. 10 in., leaving the field clear to Hubbard, who succeeded in accomplishing 5 ft. 1 in. The entries in the 100-yard dash were Abbott, L. S.; F. W. Thayer, '78; Stiles, '77; Conant, '79; and Swift, '79. This race was divided into heats, the first of which was between Abbott and Thayer, the latter winning in 11 1/8 seconds. In the second heat, between Stiles, Conant, and Swift, Swift won in 11 1/4 seconds...
...winter is over, it ought to be done now. With three new men as strong and enduring as the present three, with adequate coaching, and two or three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this year's swing and dash, and in a paper boat if it is really faster than a wooden one, there is no reason why Harvard, if she will let no rival outwork her this winter, should not again be in the first three, and this time at the end of the three which she longs...
Says Grandsir, "If that's so, my friend, I'm on your side, by dash...
...following will be the programme of events: 1. One-mile run. 2. One-mile walk. 3. Three-mile run. 4. Seven-mile walk. 5. One-half-mile run. 6. Three-mile walk. 7. One-hundred-yard dash. 8. Three-mile run. 9. One-hundred-twenty-yard hurdle. 10. Seven-mile walk. Numbers 3 and 10 are open only to graduates...
That break and dash and foam...