Word: race
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubles have reached the quarter final round with the following teams still in the race: Harris Coggeshall 1L, and M. T. Hill ocC., K. D. Daggett '30 and C. Y. Wadsworth '32, F. O. Canfield '32 and A. W. Patterson '32, W. C. Thompson '32 and Frank Broida...
Nine balloons rose from St. Louis into a wind blowing moderately toward the east. Many of their pilots and aids had been in previous races and it was to be expected that they would surpass themselves in distance and time aloft. But the longest duration was 28 hours, by Belgium's Capt. Ernest Demuyter, winner of four James Gordon Bennett races. He landed only 230 miles from his takeoff. That was comparatively not so bad for the unofficial winner of the race, Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber engineer and twice before a Race winner, traveled only...
...first (1906) race Frank P. Lahm, also an American, covered 402 miles. Longest race distance was France's Maurice Bienaime's 1,354 miles...
Spectator. The story opens in 1914 with one Brosius, a high school teacher as brutal as the one in Remarque's book, bullying delicate young Leo Silberstein, a Jew. Leo serves only to provide the author with the bleak picture of a despised race. The author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting...
Twelve yards behind Hallowell, whose time was 28 minutes, 58 seconds, in the University race, came Brennan of Holy Cross, closely followed by R. G. Hodge '31, a newcomer to the ranks of the University team...