Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a Negress, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, talked to the Women's City Club of New York. She talked about the members of her race who have migrated...
...week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer was out of the race. Slowly, doggedly, the rest splashed...
Like music over the water came the sound of their splashing to the ears, of William Wrigley Jr. i It was an inspiration, no less-this swimming race. He was advertising his enormous real estate development at Catalina. He was showing himself to be a patron of sport. He was making a bow to the sex, for he had stipulated that if a man won the race (this channel has never been swum) he would get $25,000 and the first woman to finish would get $15,000, but that if a woman won she would...
Miller, giant sprinter, showed great early season form in defeating Hussey of Boston College in a burning 40 yards sprint. Off like a flash at the shot of the pistol, the Crimson flier ripped off a dazzling 40 yards, breaking the tape after a front race from the start...
Sharing Crimson honors with the veteran sprinter is G. W. Smith '29, whose race in the 600-yard handicap defeated Higgins of Boston College and Fay of Technology. Smith made the distance in 1m. 20 3-5s., running a smooth well-timed race...