Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already and freely said that I shot the General Obregon. All this was merely to make me tell them who I was, that they might track down my supposed accomplices. . . . Finally, I told them my name," thus ending the torture...
Whoever has traveled on electrified railroads can appreciate last week's decision of the Pennsylvania Railroad to electrify its 11,000 miles of track...
Harvard and Yale's combined track team will meet the Oxford Cambridge team on Soldier's Field July 12, 1929, according to an announcement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of Harvard athletics. The last meeting between the English and American teams was won by the former on the Stamford Bridge track near London...
...stadium, wearing a scarlet tailcoat because the Queen was expected to be present at the finish, called the positions. Dorando was leading; Hefferon. a South African, was second and Hayes, who started slowly, took third place in the last six miles. Just after 5 o'clock the stadium track was cleared and at 23 minutes past, Dorando and Hefferon were in sight, running heavily down a hillside...
...face was that of a man charging against some invisible monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full of people and Hayes, who had passed Hefferon, was in the stadium, running like the wind. Dorando fell the third time...