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Word: relay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad of 19 men will be sent to the Penn Relays which are to be held in Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday. Coach E. L. Farrell is entering teams in four of the relay races and is sending four men for the weights and five for the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL ENTERS 19 IN PENN GAMES | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...these things Dr. Knowles would accomplish by means of a relay. A relay is an electromagnetic device in which the opening or closing of a circuit causes the opening or closing of a more powerful circuit. The ordinary relay will control a current only 10,000 times greater than the current that controls it. Dr. Knowles's new relay?a tube type, containing neon or argon gas?would control a current about 100,000,000 times as great as its controlling current. Photoelectrically adjusted, it could be operated by passing shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly-Power, Knowles | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...annual Crimson-Lampoon relay race will be held this year at Soldiers Field on May 7, it was announced last night by M. A. Cheek '26, who is sponsoring the annual intra-departmental, inter-class track meet, to be held on that date. In addition to the Crimson-Lampoon clash, it is expected that there will be relay races between the various classes and departments, and between athletic managers. The Crimson-Lampoon race, it is expected, will be the feature of the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON-LAMPY SPEED STARS RACE IN FAST RELAY ON MAY 7 | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...Wide will run, is expected to differ in several respects from the former annual spring meets. This year, instead of having the activities last over several days, it is expected to conclude the meet in one afternoon of intense field events. An innovation, also, this year, will be the relay race that will conclude the meet. This, it was announced, is characteristic of Western colleges, but has never characterized the East. It is expected that this relay race, in which class and department teams may compete, will be a feature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD INTRA-MURAL TRACK MEET MAY 7 | 4/5/1927 | See Source »

...strong Freshman team which travels to Exeter today is a favorite over the schoolboy team. The meet will take place at 2:30 o'clock. Exeter knowing the strength of their opponents, has not sent it's relay team to New York to run in the Intercollegiates, as they have done in past years. The hundred yard dash will be a good race between T.E. Mason, the Freshman sprinter who won two first places against Andover, and Captain Moore of Exeter who has run the distance in 36.6 seconds. Exeter is also counting on Coombs and Cobb, both middle distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVOR CRIMSON RUNNERS TO WIN NEW YORK I. C. 4A. | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

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