Word: vail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...
Pole Vault--Won by Mc Clellan (University School); second, Fogg (Burlington); faird, tie between Harvey (Andover), Vail (Andover), Richardson (Dean), and Clark (Exeter), Height 11ft...
...have in mind that an Edison or a Theodore N. Vail, a Westinghouse or a Michael Pupin might open up for their less gifted brothers, new fields where their fellow workers could not in a hundred years have provided for themselves like opportunity...
...author of these " amazingly intimate revelations of the loves, feuds, intrigues, pranks, and personalities of Society's ' circus,' " is Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul-General at Brussels, and wife of James Vail Converse...
HARVARD CATHOLIC UNIV. Lincoin, 3b. s.s., Denault Gordon, r.f. c.f., Breslin Conlon, s.s. 2b., Driscoll Owen, 1b. r.f., Lynch Jenkins, 2b. c., Corwin Janin, l.f. l.f., Vail Hallock, c.f. 3b., Lawler Murphy, c. 1b., Yeager Russell, p. p., Clark or Jackson...