Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines to try to keep track of his counter losses. Shortages continued. He found that the clerks counted at night what cash they had left in the till during the day, and then punched the register to accord. Another time he found his cash was regularly $2 short of the amount the punched holes indicated...
Hubbard. The great black legs of De Hart Hubbard have made him famed wherever legs are discussed. But it was not expected that these pistons would perform any prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second...
...York, March 5--At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the I. C. A. A. A. A. here tonight, it was voted to award the fiftieth annual outdoor track and field championship meet to Harvard. The date for the meet was set for May 28 and 29 in the Soldiers Field Stadium...
After four unsuccessful attempts to annex a national indoor championship, the University track squad will enter the lists of the fifth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet tonight in the 102nd Engineers Regiment Armory, New York City primed to make a strong bid for the title honors. A rank outsider two years ago and a dark horse last year, the Crimson squad will take to the wooden track tonight, one of the three favorites to carry off the national crown now worn by Georgetown...
Another team which will be rated high when the athletes take the track tonight will be Boston College, with a nucleus of Hussey. Sophomore dash star, a two mile relay team which is reputed to be made up of four men who can average two or three seconds under the two minute mark for the half mile, and Murphy, a hurdler who has an imposing record in the national Junior and Senior A. A. U. contests last spring...