Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starter's gun, Belgium's Reiff set a fast pace, running the first quarter in 62.7 sec. Finland's Johansson took over the lead for the next quarter, was timed at the half in 2:05.2. Then, with a burst of long strides, Wes Santee took over. He tore past the three-quarter mark in 3 :03.5, then reeled off the last quarter in a dazzling 0:58.9 to breast the tape in front at 4:02.4. His time was precisely one second off the world record set by Sweden's Gunder Hagg...
Vukovich drew the No. 1 post position in the 33-man field, thanks to having registered the fastest qualifying time (138.392 m.p.h.). And when the starter's flag dropped, he roared his Fuel Injection Special into the lead. Lap after lap, he led the field, picking up $150 in lap money every time he came past the judges' stand ahead of the rest...
...electrical engineering degree (he was the youngest man to graduate from Carnegie up to that time), and he went to work at Westinghouse Electric Co. as an 18?-an-hour student apprentice. At 22, Wilson designed the first Westinghouse auto starter. He fell in love with Jessie Ann Curtis, an $8-a-week stenographer, and they married in September 1912. At 28, he was hired away from Westinghouse by Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, to become chief engineer and sales manager of its auto division. Wilson got major credit for an engineering-design program which put Remy (later...
...Crimsons got to starter Josephson and two other Brown pitchers for 12 hits. Dick Scheer led the attack with four hits, all singles...
Only good clutch pitching by Crimson relief pitcher Pat Groper saved the game, for the Big Red amassed the astonishing total of 11 bits off his offerings and those of starter-and winner-Andy Ward...