Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mechanical officials at the finish tape will be one of the most novel features of the Intercollegiate track meet to be held in the Stadium on May 30 and 31. The new device, an invention whereby the finishes of the dashes and hurdle races are automatically recorded by electric light, was patented only recently and has been used on few tracks in this country...
...recording apparatus was received at the H. A. A. yesterday. When installed it will consist of a series of short tapes stretched from posts across each lane. Each tape is connected by underground pipes with a row of electric lights beside the track. As each tape is broken a bulb is flashed for the corresponding lane, indicating exactly the order of the finishes...
...poor eat with their families from 12 to 2. Let the children of the middle-classes eat from 11:30 to 1:30. Sensible, intricate, flexible, the system to be evolved will pay obeisance to the chief gods of the French bureaucracy: omnipresent paternalism, involved elaboration of red tape, with a strong substratum of invaluable commonsense...
...make the chances for first honors in the other events appear dim. O'Neil, who in a winter meet last year at Bowdoin scored 25 points himself, is entered in the quarter mile, half mile, and mile events today, and, if previous records can be trusted, should break the tape in each. In the 880-yards run he holds the interscholastic record and by making it in 1 minute 57 seconds recently, he very nearly equalled the intercollegiate mark Against him in the mile run Harvard has entered Haggerty, captain of the 1927 relay team, who beat the inter-scholastic...
Tibbetts also ran a masterly race in the two-mile, taking the lead of the long field of runners whenever he wanted it, and finally, in the last lap, uncorking a sprint which brought him around the last curve at a 440 clip and brought him to the tape 40 yards ahead of Rosenburgh, the Virginia runner, who had seemed to be pressing him earlier in the race...