Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last spring, the first boat rallied its forces to score a major upset over Yale in June, leaving the Elis miles up the Thames. The coming of Tom Bolles added coals to the rising fire of enthusiasm, and now the triumph at Princeton marks the first win in a sprint race since the golden days of Killer Cassidy...
...season being early and the meet being informal, Jaakko announced that the results will not be released. This afternoon's meet is in many respects a preparatory one for next week's New England Relays. A feature of both being shuttle hurdle relays, and a fourman 440 sprint relay...
...would sprint across the floor when he saw his team had the ball and wave his arms wildly and shout, "Here! Here! Throw it here!" Then the ball would be thrown elsewhere, and he would grow! and mutter an "Oh, damn!" Once he captured the ball out of the air and started to dribble madly towards the basket. Suddenly he bethought himself of an unselfish move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back...
Special mention goes to Henry Marcy whose last minute sprint was begun just too late to exchange his second for first place in the 3000-meter steeplechase, and Freshman Mason Fernald who gained a fourth place for himself in the 40 meter hurdles...
Before the Berlin Medical Society, Professor Helmut Dennig asserted that doses of this common kitchen chemical increased physical capacity and endurance between 30% and 100%. A runner "was able to run at full tilt for 42 minutes instead of 20, as formerly. A bicycle racer maintained a sprint for 15.9 minutes, whereas 10.9 minutes had been his maximum...