Word: tape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat of the dash, running over the 60 yard distance, Miller had led a fast field of sprinters to the tape in 6 2-5 seconds. Close on his heels came McAllister. Russell, former Cornell leader, trailed...
...against the Universities of Maryland and Virginia two of the fastest baton carrying combinations in the country. Tupper starred on his Freshman relay team. The Crimson stick passers were defeated by a narrow margin in the Knights of Columbus 1560 yard relay when the Holy Cross runners broke the tape a few yards in the lead. The addition of Haggerty to the combination, however, will materially strengthen Harvard's chances...
Miller, giant sprinter, showed great early season form in defeating Hussey of Boston College in a burning 40 yards sprint. Off like a flash at the shot of the pistol, the Crimson flier ripped off a dazzling 40 yards, breaking the tape after a front race from the start...
...yard relay will be the outstanding event of the evening. A year ago the Purple runners narrowly defeated the Crimson team in one of the greatest relay battles ever staged in Boston. It took the best Frank Burns could give to carry the Worcester men over the tape ahead of F. P. Kane '26, Harvard's great quarter miler. Burns will run again this year for Holy Cross. Brown, M. I. T., and Boston University have also been matched for a relay...
...More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment of a Single Command...