Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
...same kind will be arranged. At any rate, the annual winter carnival, held in the last week of February, will offer competition to both Freshman and University candidates in all the winter events, including the 40-yard dash, 300-yard dash, 600-yard run, 1,000-yard and mile races, in addition to the broad and high jumps, pole vault, shot put and 35-pound weight throw...
...completion of the first mile of the race over the three-mile Van Courtlandt Park course, O'Connell took the lead and kept it until the end, winning quite easily by about 100 yards over the second runner, J. Simons of Syracuse. O'Connell's time for the distance was 16 minutes, 12 seconds. The next 1921 harriers to cross the finish line were J. E. Nally and F. L. A. Cady, who were seventh and eighth respectively...
...under the auspices of Columbia University, is an innovation which was introduced into intercollegiate athletics this fall as a result of the war-time tendency toward increased importance of freshman sports. The race, which will start at 2.15 o'clock, will be run over the Van Courtlandt Park three-mile course. The first five members of each team to finish will count in the score...
After the completion of the Freshman contest the feature event of the afternoon will take place when informal teams from Yale, Cornell and other colleges meet in the annual Intercollegiate Race. They will compete for the cross- country championship over the six-mile Van Courtlandt Park course. Although the University team ran in the I. C. A. A. A. A. Meet at New Haven last year, the informals have not been entered in the race today, for the university season came to an end ten days...