Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intramural track and field meet and Edvin Wide's attempt to lower the world's two-mile mark next Saturday give promise of presenting a spectacle even greater than Nurmi's so-called "race of the century" on the Stadium track two years ago. The University meet should bring into competition more Harvard students than any other single event in the history of the University, while Wide, if he meets satisfactory conditions both in regard to weather and competition, may be expected to negotiate the distance in better than record time...
...possible from all departments of the University to take part in the meet. Large cups, on which the names of the winners will be inscribed, have been donated by alumni and officials of the University. These trophies will be permanent and will be named after men prominent in track annals at Harvard. Besides these rewards, place winners will also receive gold, silver, or bronze medals from...
...feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...
...sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
Last week in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry Duell, no Indian, started out to run 90 mi. on an indoor track. After eating up 76 mi. in 9 hr. 15 min. he quit. Cause: leg cramp...