Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in the great I. C. A. A. A. A. track meet at Cambridge, six records* fell. A flying youth named Russell from Cornell dashed 100 yd. in 9 7/10 sec., equaling the record set four years ago and disproving a statement by an old-time coach to the effect that anyone who ran the hundred in less; than 10 sec. was a liar. That feat is a commonplace today. The same youth bolted uncannily down tho track for the 220 yd. dash, came in like lightning, passed his field...
...shortly after, Smith of Brookline, turned in a mark of 51 seconds flat bettering the old record by a fifth of a second also. Dorchester broke the half mile relay record largely due to the work of Yavner and Korb who finished first and second in the 220 yard dash, Tremblay of Lawrence was the fourth record breaker, when he heaved the 12 pound shot 43 feet 2 1-3 inches...
Herr Schwarz barked a few terse orders. Well schooled, his helpers lashed at the horses, succeeded in urging them to a wild dash toward the cliff's edge, where they halted, reared...
...those footless cases which a dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some...
...Yard Dash...