Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within 100 days of the starting pistol crack...
...relays entered are the quarter mile, the mile, the four mile and a medley sprint. Coach Farrell will probably start A. E. French '29, T. E. Dunn '29, G. A. Tupper '29, L. D. Brayton '28, or R. T. Dunn '28 in the quarter mile relay in which each man will run 110 yards. In the one mile race A. H. O'Neil '28, L. D. Brayton '28, J. S. Malick '27, and W. C. Peet Jr. '28 will represent the Crimson while Leslie Flaksman '29, G. W. Smith '29, J. O. Wildes '29 and J. L. Reid '29, will...
Those running in the special sprint medley in which two men run 220 yards, the next man 440 yards, and the last 880 yards, is as yet uncertain, but these men will be picked from R. T. Dunn '28, W. C. Peet Jr. '28, L. D. Brayton '28, G. A. Tupper '29, A. H. O'Neil '28 and T. E. DunnJr...
...last week his seventh personal motorcycle. These brittle, popping steeds are perhaps his most dangerous vice. More than once Belgian policemen have arrested a speeding motorcyclist (TIME, Aug. 16) only to let him go, abashed, when they found he was their King. For His Majesty a 200-mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day's run-and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King Albert of the Belgians usually motorcycles completely unattended. His newest mount is a recently developed British machine of ultra high power...
...handicap sprint event, at 40 yards, Francis Hussey of Boston College running from scratch, won his major victory of the year. The former Stuyvesant High School and Olympic sensation had little difficulty to bursting past his rivals. Lundell, veteran Crimson sprinter, came in third immediately behind Morrill of Boston University...