Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his...
5,000 Metres. The track in Madison Square Garden has eleven laps to the mile (approximately 34 laps to the 5,000 metres). Willie Ritola, brother Finn, old rival of Nurmi, took the lead. At his heels came the flying robin's-egg jersey. Lap after lap the two...
Moons sank, suns rose. After six days, the winners: Reggie McNamara, Australian "iron man," and Pete Van Kempen, of Holland; 2,368 mi., 5 laps, 1,057 points for sprinting. Second place: Bobby Walthour Jr., of Georgia, and Franco Georgetti, of Italy. Third: Marcel Buysse and Alphonse Goosens, of Belgium...
So it went. That he was an unequaled orator, none denied. He was the speaker on such great occasions as the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty and the opening of The Chicago Exposition in 1893. That he was an able lawyer was proved by his services to the Vanderbilt...
Gore Hall won the first of a series of Freshman interdormitory athletic events the winner of which will receive credit toward the interdormitory athletic trophy. Yesterday afternoon the cross-country men raced around a course of one and a third laps just inside the fence on Soldiers Field. In a...