Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...
...metre dash: Loren Murchison of the Newark Athletic Club, 10 1/5 sec. (First time...
...radius of action of 1,300 miles; Spitzbergen is 500 miles from the Pole, but over 1,700 miles from Point Barrow. The explorers will, therefore, make several seven-hour trips from Norway to the Pole, and make a cache there of fuel and supplies, for the last dash across the frozen top of the earth...
...Heinan made a strong rejoinder to Editor Howe. The Shenandoah will be in commission in April. If Great Britain or any other Power threatens to forestall the U. S. in a voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice. But it would...
...dash (indoor) : Louis Clark, of Johns Hopkins University, 981 seconds. The previous record, 10 seconds, was equalled two weeks ago by Loren Murchison, Newark A. C. ¶ 300-yd. breast stroke (women) : In Buffalo, Agnes Geraghty lowered her previous record to 4 min. 53(3/5)s sec. ¶500-yd. run (indoor) : In the "Buer-meyer 500" race in Manhattan, Joe Tierney, of Holy Cross, in 58 seconds. The previous record was made in 1920 by Jake Driscoll, 59(3/5) seconds...