Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...events: 1) The 400-metre hurdles race was won by George Taylor, Grinnell College, who reduced a world's record of 53 seconds to 52 6/10 seconds; 2) J. C. Taylor, New York A. C, tied a recent world's record of 48 1/10 seconds when he hit the tape at the end of the 400-metre run; 3) F. H. Johnston, Illinois A. C, called it a draw with the four-year-old world record of 14 4/5 seconds when he puffed in from the 110-metre hurdles; 4) Chester Bowman of Syracuse traversed 110 metres in 10 6/10...
Groundkeeper Dennis Enright announced last night that there will be double finish tapes at the Olympic tryouts today and tomorrow in both the 400 metre and 800 metre events, one tape at the regular metre distances, and one--at the 440 and 880 yard marks, and that the time of the winner will be taken at both tapes although only the metre finish and the metre time will be official. The distance of 400 metres is approximately 2 1-2 yards short of a quarter mile and the 800 metres event measures 874 yards...
...accuracy, yet it is by no means immune from careless clerks and incompetent stenographers. Last week the ticker reported that a dividend of 75? a share had been declared upon Mother Lode Coalition Mines. Immediately the gentry who make a living for a while by trading on the tape hurled orders t into the market to buy "Mother Lode," whose price soon shot up from...
...beaten in the half-mile, kept his record clean by defeating Helffrich of Penn State, the defending champion, in a whirlwind 880-yards run. Watters stepped out and led the pack, composed of the ten foremost collegiate halfmilers of the country, from the starting gun to the tape, winning by a full five yards...
...State, and Leh of Princeton. All these men have turned in remarkable performances during the past season, but Watters' exhibition in the Princeton meet three weeks ago, when he turned in a 1.55 1-5 half with little effort, mark him as the most likely man to break the tape on Saturday...