Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying days (1924); John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, record holders, 23 days (1928). The Graf Zeppelin expected to fly twelve or 14 days, with four-day stops for fueling at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles?in all, a few days more than three weeks. The Mears-Collyer dash cost them $29,507, or $14,753.50 each. Dirigible passengers paid $9,000 each...
...agrees to pay the U. S. some $6,847,674,104.17 over 62 years. Presently the Senate approved the bill 300 to 292, and President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree enacting the debt settlement into law. Not until then did the stern old "Lion of Lorraine" feel free to dash upon paper the final resignation he has so long wanted to sign...
...that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding...
George Simpson of Ohio State, holder of the world's unofficial record (9 4/10 sec.) for the 100 yd. dash, traveled about 1,200 miles to Denver for the 54th annual senior track meet of the National A. A. U. There, waiting to beat him, were Eddie Tolan, little bespectacled Negro from the University of Michigan and Western Conference champion; Frank Wykoff, defending A. A. U. champion; Claude Bracey, 1928 N. C. A. A. champion; Russell Sweet, Pacific A. A. U. champion; Cy Leland, Southern Collegiate champion. But George Simpson never ran. Two days before the race which somebody...
...knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot 67 ft. 11½ in. for the meet's only world's record...