Word: turned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sport from sheer laziness. It is understood, we trust, that the fee of three dollars will not be exacted from men who enter for the Scratch Races. The fifty cents entrance-fee goes to purchase the chaste and unpresuming pewter mugs. It is earnestly hoped that the University will turn out large numbers of spectators and contestants to-morrow forenoon...
...Parmley. 120-yards, H. E. Ficken, 17 1/4 sec. This is the best American time. Mile-run, T. H. Smith, 4 min. 51 1/4 sec. This is the best American time, and is a branch of running which has no first-class representatives in this country, because so few turn their attention to it. A man who could do 4.50 or 4.45 every time could win every prize offered in this country for this distance, 220 yards. W. C. Wilmer, 22 7/8 sec., which is the best on record. Pole-leaping, A. Ing, 9 ft. 4 in.; best record...
...believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race. There is room enough in the Basin for a two-mile straightaway race, or for a three-mile race with a turn, and if these elements of novelty were introduced, the fall races might be made a success. The same craft could be used for the scratch races, making these a mile or more in distance and using the Charles River course...
Seeing alone the printed pages turn...
...will turn each page as well, when the light breezes blow...