Word: dashings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...high "V"-split collar like that of Charles Gates Dawes. A Theodore Roosevelt pince-nez. Such are the two foibles of dress affected by President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the German Reichsbank. There was a dash of Roosevelt and more than a tang of Dawes in certain words spoken by Dr. Schacht, last week, which caused prices on the Berlin Bourse to break and go crashing down harder and lower than at any time since...
...dash is all Miller and the 205-pound Harvard sprinter ought to lead Paulsen of Yale, and either Burns or Lundell of Harvard to the tape; the time to be around 9 4-5 seconds...
...yard dash: Swope, Hume, McCall...
...Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon - com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500 metre...