Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest reports the Lindberghs had not yet banqueted with German bomber pilots but were enjoying themselves hugely. They visited Olympic Village, the Colonel taking a sprint around the running track, poking into every corner of the U. S. Olympic Team's quarters, pausing to watch some storks and laughing at the antics of the Australian team's mascot kangaroo...
Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...
...Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
When the seconding speeches for Nominee Landon turned into a parade of his withdrawing opponents, everyone realized that now the sprint for the Vice-Presidency was under way. First to the platform, Senator Arthur Vandenberg seemed to have the race hands down. It was well known that the Landonites wanted him, and the authoritative ring of his first-person-singular announced his availability with twice the hint and confidence of Frank Knox's self-effacing remarks about this being no time for personal ambition. Iowa's bluff Senator Dickinson, Maryland's fat Governor Nice, New Hampshire...
Harvard's Varsity crew finished its unbroken sprint record this spring with another loss Saturday, to Cornell on Lake Cayuga. Both the Varsity and Jayvees lost over the two miles, the Big Red taking the first shell by three lengths in 10:38.3. Syracuse trailed the Harvard first and second boats by two and five lengths respectively...