Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveal what was accomplished, Miller took the 40-yard dash, Allen the 300-yard run, Kane the 600-yard run, Watters the 1000-yard run, Tibbetts the two-mile run, and Fletcher the 45-yard hurdles. In his race Allen clipped two-fifths of a second off the 300-yard run. When the pistol cracked for the start of the 600-yard event. Haggerty was badly blocked at the start and Kane was soon trailing fourth or fifth. By the time the runners had passed the press stand with but two more laps before the finish, Kane had sneaked...
...rangy second year Green high-jumper, had cleared six feet and three inches to replace Herring, who had captured this event in the H-D-C meet the year before. In the broad jump, Glendenning, a former Andover flash, showed promise, and was in addition entered in the dash, the 300-yard run, and the relay. Other outside threats were Captain Russell of the Ithacan contingent and his teammate Goodwillie. They both were figured on to threaten the dash supremacy of Miller...
...University track team received the first break in the 1926 H-D-C Triangular meet. In the draw for places held at the Harvard Club the day before the meet, Lundell, the Crimson entry in the 300-yard dash, drew the pole, which gave him the advantage of starting in the inside lane at the expense of Glendenning of Dartmouth and Captain Russell of Cornell. However, the results of the draw divided the advantage evenly on the whole, with the exception of the coverted pole in the 300. The possession of the latter made the University a slight favorite over...
More than with most sailors, the Navy is a family matter with Admiral Hughes. He married a daughter of famed Charles E. Clark who commanded the Oregon on its dash around Cape Horn during the Spanish War. Another daughter of Hero Clark wedded Samuel Shelburne Robison, who, like Secretary Wilbur, was graduated at Annapolis four years after Admiral Hughes, in the class of 1888. In 1925, Admiral Hughes succeeded his comrade and friend, now Rear Admiral Robison, as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet...
...guides, accustomed to the long grind, were so industrious that at four that afternoon the white tent of Camp No. 3, which was to be our highest camp, had been pitched on the landing nearest the summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut, rose and spoke: "It's come, boys...