Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first year of the interscholastic games, only three schools competed. The events were run off at Southborough, St. Mark's Schol being the meet host. Among the events listed in this meet were the tug-of-war, throwing the baseball, and the one mile walk. The winner of the 100-yard dash tore down the cinders to break the tape in 10 4-5 seconds, only 4-5 of a second more than the present interscholastic record...
...next three days Lowella may walk in a Yard that will, saving only one building, be purged of all offense. And by the end of the week she may walk even in that building without unhappiness, for by then the offensively uncollegiate garments should be in the slums. Last year they were sent to the flood victims, but the arrival of uncollegiate clothing in New Hampshire was was looked upon as an impertinence in some of the better refugee circles. And however prejudiced the poor may be, Phillips Brooks House can still do the Christian thing by the rich. Lowella...
...race. No middle distance runner has ever been a great marathon runner; it is easier for a man who has never done any running at all to learn long distance pacing than for a sprinter to change his style to the loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant to hold his pace...
...they had honored Lindbergh eleven months before. The members of the U. S. legation turned out in full force. Government officials cried and kissed the aviators; the older ones had never expected to see them again. People in Paris stood outside their shops talking, laughing . . . you couldn't walk along the Champs Elysees. The Government decreed a special stamp for Costes and Lebrix...
...first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been omitted in the other, such as the mad tea-party, the caucus race, the Cheshire Cat's technique of vanishing, and the two resplendent lyrics which began " 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail . . ." and " 'Tis the voice of a lobster; I heard him declare...