Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week women athletes ran faster, leaped higher and broader than ever before in modern times. At the Oxo Sport Grounds, near London, were held the first English women's national track championships. Miss E. W. Edwards dashed 220 yards in 27 seconds, a world's record. Miss Mary Lines again stood out as Europe's, if not the world's, leading woman track star by winning her four events-100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 120-yard hurdles, running broad jump. At Brussels she once before conquered four fields in one day and was dubbed...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...
...annual games at Stamford Bridge was given a first exhibition of England's 1924 Olympic possibilities. Four English Amateur Athletic Association records were broken: 100-yard dash - Liddell, Edinburgh, 9 7-10 sec. (The U. S. A. A. U. record is 9 6-10 sec.) 220-yard dash-Liddell, Edinburgh, 21 3-5 sec. (U. S., 21 1-5 sec.) 120-yard high hurdles-Gaby, Polytechnic, 15 1-6 sec. (U. S., 14 2-5 sec.) Running high jump-Lewden, Stade Francais...
...yard dash-Harold "Boots" Lever, University of Pennsylvania, 6 8/10...
...yard dash-Harold Lever, University of Pennsylvania, 7 5/10...