Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sudan (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq).* Outside the station thousands of people voiced their farewells in true Moslem fashion. Bands played, replayed and played again a special hymn dedicated to 'the Premier. A small group of people carrying a coffin were seen to lay it down and dash to the station to catch a fleeting glimpse of the departing Premier; the enthusiasm was great...
Last week at Brough, England, the American world fliers refitted their planes. Pontoons and new engines were installed in preparation for the final dash across the Atlantic by way of the Orkney Islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies...
...outstanding event of the outstanding events came when Jackson V. Scholz,* New York A. C. sprinter, tripped the cinders with fairy feet for 20 9/10 twinkling seconds and won the semi-final 200-metre dash by a magnificent performance in which for the second time in one day he gave the world's record of 21 1/5 seconds a sick headache. In the finals this modern Mercury sped down the track in 21 seconds, tying his first effort on the previous day. By all odds, the gods had marked him down for an Olympic wreath...
...metre dash is 9 yards 1 foot over the regular century sprint and 20 0 metres is 1 yard 10 inches less than the furlong. There will not, however, be double finish tapes in these events, nor in the 1500 metre race, which is 120 yards less than a mile...
...dash for women: Beredine Krill of Edgerton, Ohio, 29 7/10...