Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
...Sixty racing greyhounds and several "electric rabbits" were shipped, last week, from England to Germany. At Berlin the consignees were busy erecting two dog race tracks, one of which they impiously proclaimed would be "opened Easter...
Electrician Wensley was prompted to forecast: "I can envision the day when possibly a race of 500,000 of these men will be at the beck & call of humanity. . . . We have already got an order from a gentleman who has a country estate. He wants a robot...
Final details of the race are to be determined at a meeting of representatives of the Aeronautical Association, which is sponsoring it, and the various college flying groups, to be held in New York on April...
Ithaca, N. Y., March 2.--Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 of the Harvard tennis team and M. T. Hill '30 today reached the double semi-finals of the second annual Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Tournament. Their advancement places Harvard in a close race for second honors in the tourney. Princeton with continued singles victories has amassed enough points to make it sure of the team trophy...