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Word: dashman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from Landau and Abbott, though, none of the Crimson entrants placed in the individual events. Dave Brahms was left behind in the Farrell 500, won by Basil Ince of Tufts, and dashman Larry Repsher finished last in his heat. The varsity field event men also fared badly against some of the best high jumpers and broad jumpers in the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abbott, Bailey Set College Marks In Boston K. of C. Track Meet | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Part of the reason for the team's comparatively dismal showing lies in the loss of quarter-miler French Anderson, of Eddie Martin in the distances, and of Doc Bennett, a promising pole vaulter. There were also injuries to two-miler Dyke Benjamin and dashman Sandy Dodge, as well as Jim Doty's bother-some skin rash which reduced his effectiveness in the shot...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Track Team Has Average Season | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

...this winter, the Crimson eked out a 65-60 win, and from all indications tomorrow's pattern should be the same. The recent blooming of runners such as Al Gordon in the 440, Lee Barnes in the dashes, Art Cahn in the 880, and the return to form of dashman Sandy Dodge and captain Pete Reider in the distances could tip the meet in the Crimson's favor...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Trackmen to Face Yale Tomorrow In Lone Home Appearance of Year | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

Died. Owen Gould Davis, 82, pudgy, hornrimmed, onetime record-breaking Harvard dashman, who ground out more than 200 melodramas ("You may strike me, Harold Halverton, but there is a God that will protect a woman's honor") and serious plays, won the Pulitzer Prize (1923) with Icebound; after long illness; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Olympic prospects: Shotputter Parry O'Brien, the rugged, big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Californian who smashed his own world record this last week with a flip of 61 ft. 4 in.; Dashman Lou Jones of the Second Army, world record holder in the 400 meters at 0:45.4, who was 0.3 sec. off that time last week; Middle-Distance Runner Arnie Sowell, a wisp of a Negro with the delicate legs of a thoroughbred, who set an American record in the 800 meters at 1 :46.7, just a second slower than the worlds record; and, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Afraid of the Big Bad Bear? | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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