Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This leaves Cornell with almost a sure win in the mile, and a win in the dash. Unless they break through in the mile, relay over the strong Dartmouth team, they will have to rely on second, third, and fourth places for the rest of their points...
Green Will Have Troubles in Dash...
...first event of the evening, a dash, Green will go out in an attempt to pick off third spot. He will be opposed by Burlingame of Yale, Linders of Cornell, and Donovan of Dartmouth, all of whom may beat him to the worsted and all of whom he may beat if the gods of chance favor...
...death-shade declaration, in a night attack on a squadron of the Russian fleet, sleeping at anchor off Port Arthur. After the first on-set Togo never let up; he raided them, hammered them by indirect fire when they hid in the harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo gave the Russians a fearful pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under...
...like fighting cocks. As he lay in wait, he knew the coming battle of Tsushima (he had even picked the place) would be the decisive contest of the war. It was the greatest naval fight since Trafalgar, greatest until Jutland. Turning the Russian fleet from their one chance, a dash to the harbor of Vladivostok. Togo in naval parlance "crossed the T"-led his ships in line across the top of the Russian column, with all his guns free to fire while the Russians were masked by their own ships. From the exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa...