Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quarter-mile race, E. Bell '04, one of the limit men, set the pace for the greater part of the distance, but was passed by Willis as they came into the home stretch. Willis won in 51 1-5s., with W. G. Clerk '01, a scratch man, second, and third, S. H. Bush '01, from the 10-yard mark...
...first six laps of the two-mile race, the pace was set by the limit men, the five scratch men running together behind the main bunch. On the seventh lap Richardson took the lead, followed closely by F. C. Williams '01, C. J. Swan '01 and E. W. Mills '02. Richardson kept ahead easily, and finished in 10m, 4s., without being pushed. Williams fell on the home stretch, and Swan finished second, and Mills third. Both were scratch men. The time for this race is within 3 1-5s. seconds of the Harvard record, made by H. B. Clark...
...unjustifiably large. Houston Hall is said to be the best example of this sort of a club in this country. The annual dues there are $2.50. Possibly circumstances may be enough different with us to warrant a charge of $5.00, but this seems to me the extreme limit: and a lower charge is highly desirable...
...Anderson of Edinburgh on February 21. No traces of the presence of this star on February 19 were found by the photographic system in use--by which several pictures of the heavens are taken every night--and it must therefore have burst into its brilliancy within the limit of those two days. This limit no observatory could so accurately determine. Like all new stars the origin can only be explained by theories--one of which is that it is formed by a collision of heavenly bodies; another, that it is in the nature of an eruption perhaps of a volcanic...
...twelfth annual indoor athletic meet of the Boston Athletic Association will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 16, at the Mechanics Building under the sanction of the A. A. U. The program of handicap events is the same as that a year ago, including forty yard dash, 9 ft. limit; 600 yard run, 30 yards limit; 45 yard low hurdles, four flights, 9 ft. limit; 1000 yard run, 50 yards limit; mile run, 60 yards limit; putting 16 pound shot, 6ft. limit; high jump, 6 inch limit; three standing jumps, 1 ft. limit. there will also be a two mile race...