Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Paddock, fast-stepper, one-time beau of Bebe Daniels, broke his own world's record for the null dash twice in two days at the Rice Relays in Houston. His last time...
...they watched their flocks by night, certain Egyptian shepherds beheld, last week, a flaming portent. They saw the famed Luxor-Cairo de Luxe Express dash screeching through the night with two of its sleeping cars afire. For once the poor shepherds, shivering in their rags, were momentarily more fortunate than such de luxe travelers as George Eastman (kodaks). He, clad in silken green pajamas, slumbered in one of the flaming cars...
...Champaign, Ill, Jack Elder (no relative), Notre Dame halfback, tied the world's record for 75-yard dash...
...Mason '30 and A. E. French '29, the University entries in the 60-yard dash, will face Michigan's captain, George Hester, who broke the tape in this event in the Big Ten Conference games last year. In the quarter mile V. L. Hennessy '30 and F. E. Cummings '30 will be matched against Munger, who has bettered 50 seconds for this distance. In the longer runs, Harvard, as has been the case in all of its meets during the past few years, will be the heavy favorite. Captain A. H. O'Neil '28 and R. P. Porter...
Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...