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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Crimson were not so successful in the relays. Holy Cross showed a strong team to defeat the Dunn-Tupper-Peet-O'Neil combination in the mile event in the time of 3m, 11 1-5 seconds. The Crimson racers held the lead for two laps, due to a fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CRIMSON RUNNERS TRIUMPH IN FIRST TEST OF 1927 SEASON AT K. C. INDOOR MEET | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Air Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Mr. Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: ON THE STREAM OF TRAVEL. By James Norman Half. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1926. $3.00. | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Captain Ellison plans to have the hockey players get in shape by running several laps daily for two weeks before the start of regular practice. Some of the hockey veterans have already made use of the artificial rinks around Boston for early skating, but the majority of the squad will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGE VETERAN SQUAD PRESAGES ICE SUCCESS | 11/4/1926 | See Source »

The Army beat the Navy in the Liberty Engine Builders' trophy race, Lieut. Orville L. Stephens coming home first in a Curtiss Falcon observation plane after averaging 142.6 m.p.h. for a dozen laps of a 12-mile course. Later the Navy, in the person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Races | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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