Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special trains, which had paused on their dash southward only to take on ice, 1,000 delegates to the 14th annual convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America were met at Winter Park, 140 miles from St. Petersburg, by the St. Petersburg Chambermen of Commerce, with several squads of motorcycle policemen and 54 enormous motor busses, which shimmered in the station-yard like a caravan of painted elephants. Handshaking, backslapping, ensued. The bankers dispersed to divert themselves before settling down to the serious sessions of boosting, debate, criticism which would begin next...
...under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example of horrifying journalism there was the smell of an excuse, for the victim had not been killed-merely knocked down, internally injured, and fractured in the skull. There was life in the corpselike shape-all that...
...Flexner '29, with a 6-yard handicap, won the 70-yard dash, followed by H. E. Harris '27 and J. H. Sachs '29. The last two men were assigned handicaps of three and four yards respectively...
Running events in the fall handicap track meet which had been postponed on account of the poor condition of the track will be run today at 3 o'clock. These events include the 70-yard high hurdlers, 120-yard low hurdles, 100-yard dash, 150-yard run, quarter-mile run, half-mile run, and the mile run, handicaps for which will, as usual, be given on the field. Medals are to be awarded the first three winners in each event...
Luck was against Brown in the Dartmouth game. Expected to dash to an easy win, the Indians of the North were played to a standstill. Dartmouth scored two touchdowns when Sage blocked a pair of punts, but the famous big Green offense was completely stopped. A forward pass from Mishel to Broda put a Brown touchdown over the line, but it was called back on a penalty...