Word: tape
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rather like biting one's nose to spite one's face. Here is an opportunity to get rid of a large number of undesirables, "thousands" of whom, according to the Russian representative, have requested passports to return to the peace and tranquility of Bolshevism. No international conventionalities or red tape should be permitted to interfere with the rats' abandonment of our "sinking" Ship of State. Give them their passports and God bless...
Campbell of Yale broke the tape in 19 minutes, 39 1-5 seconds...
Against the Yale and the M. I. T. harriers the yearlings have already run, trailing the one and defeating the other. Both these teams have one individual star--Walker of Technology and Campbell of Yale, who broke the tape in their respective races. Except for Walker, however, Technology has not a fast team, there being generally much distance between the first and second men. Yale, on the other hand, has a strong and well balanced aggregation...
...scores in this meet will be determined from the place numbers of the first seven men of each team. The 1923 numerals will be awarded to those men who are among the first seven to cross the tape. Cups will be awarded to the first three men and to the winning team...
...running of T. C. McDermott, the Ithacan captain, who, covering the course in 34 minutes, 23 3-5 seconds, came within less than a minute of breaking the record for the course made by Overton of Yale in 1914. J. W. Cambell, also of Cornell, crossed the tape 22 seconds later, leading B. Lewis '20 by a scant three yards...