Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily doings of Miss Brazil (svelte Olga Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the Contest two special wires carried the story from Galveston to New York, thence by direct cable to Buenos Aires where special United Press editors hung over the keyboard to relay the story northward to Rio de Janeiro. Huge crowds were gathered in front of the big Rio newspaper offices to watch returns flashed on the screen...
...outstanding stars, the Indians will present strength in practically every event sufficient to pick up a few points all along the line. Jerry Swope leads the invaders as captain and as the best middle distance runner in this part of the country. As anchor man of the Dartmouth mile relay team that won the national title at Philadelphia last month, he stepped the final quarter in 48 4-5 seconds...
Newark Preparatory School is sending an exceptionally strong group of runners including a crack mile relay team which under favorable conditions should stand an excellent chance of breaking the existing scholastic mark in that event...
...around Philadelphia's Franklin Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record?9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
...which is the date set for the annual interscholastic track meet may witness another speed event of even greater importance. Negotiations are under way between the Lampoon editors and the board of the Princeton Tiger for a relay race between the editors of the two publications at Soldiers Field on the date...