Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward and flick away the minute specks of dirt left by the shoes of otherwise cleanly ladies and gentlemen...
...yard dash--Won by A.L. Watkins '31; second, E.E. Record '32 (1 yard); third, J.B. Hawes '32. Time...
Medals will be given to the first three men in each event, of which there are 11. The 50-yard dash, the 45-yard high hurdles, the 300-yard run, and the 600-yard run will have the preliminary heats run off on Friday, the winners to compete in the finals on Saturday. Three field events, the shotput, 35-pound weight, and the high-jump, will be completely run off on Friday...
...years ago a friend of mine, Joseph H. Swan III, attended the International Polo matches and at one of the clubs a bartender of some renown was asked to make up a new drink to celebrate the occasion. He used one-half grape juice, one-half gin, with a dash of creme de menthe. This mixture should be stirred slowly, and served cold. It is called a "Polo Club...
...York Times, only U. S. newsservice to carry the mammoth encyclical in toto, proudly announced that this was the longest single radio message ever transmitted from Italy (some 12.000 words), required 14½ hours of dot-and-dash work due to "unfavorable conditions," whereas "under favorable conditions an average of 1,000 words per hour can be maintained...