Word: tape
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Winchester, the 1923 captain, took the lead early in the race and held it easily to the tape. Kelly, who placed fifth, was the first Medford High runner to cross the line...
Seven University track men won places among the first eight in the three-mile steeplechase held in the American Legion Athletic Carnival at Braves Field yesterday. H. L. Weeks, a B. A. A. runner, broke the tape, trailed by the seven Crimson men. Sixty yards separated Weeks from B. Lewis '20, the first University man in. Lewis was followed at intervals of about 50 yards by A. W. Douglas '21, F. G. Bemis '22, T. G. Ames '20, J. F. Wason '20, T. A. Worrall '20 and J. E. Nally '21, in order...
...blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
Cornell's victory did not obscure, however, the most spectacular race of the day, in which Dennis F. O'Connell '21 making the best time he had ever done in the mile, passed Crawford of Lafayette, who had been picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last...
...bone dry" lid, that was set up under the pressure of war conditions, were tightly clamped on the country, there would be great grinding and jolting before the nation finally stabalized itself again. The President has acted judiciously, and we urge that Congress begin to cut the red tape as soon as possible, in order that July 1 may not be a national day of gloom...