Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the people in the University of California's new Edwards Stadium hoped to see in the 100-yd. dash was the rubber race between Frank Wykoff of Southern California, intercollegiate champion in 1931, joint holder of the world's record (9.5 sec.) and Bob Kiesel, University of California sophomore, who lost one race to Wykoff this year, then beat him in the California Intercollegiates. Wykoff won both his heats with nonchalance, looking backwards for the last 30 yards. Kiesel, who had said he would not compete for a place on this year's Olympic team because...
...Berkeley, Calif, last week, for the first meet ever held on the Pacific Coast, they were all sure Southern California would win again with Stanford second. The meet resolved itself therefore into a series of individual contests about which some doubt remained. Most spectacular were four: 100-yd. dash, quarter-mile, half-mile, pole vault...
...handful of votes to force French acceptance of the proposals, but M. Herriot hesitated to join forces with M. Blum, knowing that on other issues the Socialists will not support him, that to keep his Cabinet from being defeated he must curry favor with the Right. On a quick dash up to Paris last week Premier Herriot appeared worried and irresolute, said that the "chief fault" of the President's proposal is that it "attributes certain effectives to nations A, B and C, but what would happen if A and B should join against C? . . . I have read and reread...
...prior the Senate had finally passed (72-to-11) the measure after President Hoover's spectacular dash to the Capitol (TIME. June 6). His belated and ambiguous recommendation for a "general manufacturers' excise" tax the Senate impatiently brushed aside. Long after his return to the White House, Senators orated angrily against his sudden visit to their chamber, called it an unnecessary publicity stunt...
...toast. He decided that under her comely exterior beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer of marriage, had him beaten up. On the night that she was to announce her betrothal to a rich and eminently eligible young man, Don Slocum appeared...