Word: takers
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...Purdy, 35 sec., was placed first, and his time was found to be 6 min. 15 sec. It was also found, on reckoning up, that the three first men had all beaten 6 min. 30 sec. An error somewhere was evident, and it finally turned out that the lap-taker was from one to three laps short on every man in the race. An endless wrangle immediately arose as to who had really won, every man of the thirty-nine insisting that he was the individual, and the race was finally declared void. In the same way arose an error...