Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Percy Williams, famed Canadian sprinter, with a pulled thigh muscle, over a sodden track: the 100-yd. dash in the fine time of 9.9 sec. at the Empire Games in Hamilton, Ont. England, with 25 points, won the meet; Canada was second with 17; South Africa third with...
...Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter: a 100-metre dash event in Toronto, breaking by 1/10 sec. the world's record of 10 4/10 sec. set by Charles Paddock...
Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell...
Short-legged runners often have trouble getting started. A poor start was what beat Eddie Tolan of Michigan, holder of the official world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.) in the intercollegiate championships at Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B. C., Tolan tensed his little black body beside the big white frames of George Simpson (Ohio State) and Percy Williams of Canada, the Olympic champion. When the gun cracked it was Tolan who sprang away fastest. He led all the way to the tape, 100 metres away, arriving there...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...