Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 19-year-old high school boy, 21 4/5 sec. He also won the 100-metre dash (TIME...
...Metre Dash. Won by Elizabeth Robinson of the U. S. 12 1/5 sec., world's record...
...afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother says so with her eyes." Queen Mother Emma. The death of King Willem...
...world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland, 168 ft.,718½ in. Four-Hundred-Metre Hurdles. Won by Lord David Burghley of Great Britain...
...year-old Frank Wykoff of Glendale High School in southern California, who defeated all comers in the 100-metre trials and four times equalled the Olympic record (10⅝ seconds). Charles Paddock, whose amateur status is being investigated, was too slow to qualify in the 100-metre dash, but he finished second to Charles Borah, also of California, in the 200-metre finals and made the team...