Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again, "he is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption...
...yard dash--7 1-10 sec. Harold Lever, Pennslyvania, March 3, 1923; F. V. Hussey, Boston College, March...
...sensations of the evening were, first, Miller's triumph in the 300-yard dash after having won the 40-yard dash; second, Captain Haggerty's double victories in the mile and the 1000-yard run; and third, the record-breaking heave of C. A. Pratt '28 who, urged on by the apparently unsurpassable toss of Anderson of Cornell, rose to the supreme effort of his career and with a put of 42 feet two and three-fourths inches nosed out the Ithacan by one half an inch to establish a new meet record...
Miller's victory in the 40-yard dash was eclipsed by his unexpected appearance and triumph in the 300-yard dash. Rushing to the fore at the crack of the pistol, the giant sprinter justified the confidence Coach Farrell had shown in entering him, by outspending and out-generalling the pack. Unaccustomed to the difficult Mechanics Building corners, he negotiated them perfectly and easily led Glendenning of Dartmouth to the tape...
...Flying Club will act as ushers on Thursday evening when Commander Richard E. Byrd describes his North Pole and transatlantic flights in a lecture in the ballroom of the Hotel Statier. This will be Commander Byrd's last appearance in Boston before he sets out on his hazardous aeroplane dash to the South Pole. The expedition is now forming, and the start is scheduled for September. Commander Byrd plans to build a small city on the rim of the Atlantic continent and to make this the base for his flight. He will outline his plane in detail on Thursday...