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Word: dashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Thomas was sure had been started by desperate inmates to effect a wholesale delivery. A second fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee to protect their men. Thousands of Columbus citizens milled around on the fringe of the death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio's Holocaust | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...slight lead over the University boat. It was not until the mile mark that the first crew overtook the Jayvees, and just beyond the mile and a quarter mark that the University and the Jayvee oarsmen were able to overtake Crew C. The race ended in a wild dash for the finish as the first boat raised its stroke of 34 to 40 in order to beat the Seconds. The winners crossed the line three-quarters of a length ahead of the Jayvees and about a length and a half in advance of the third boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW B IS WINNER OVER CREWS A AND C IN BASIN | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...yard dash--Won by V. L. Hennessy '20, second, M. smither (W); third, J, B. Hawes '32. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TAKES TWO ON APRIL TRIP, LOSES FOUR CLOSE GAMES | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...yard dash-Won by Smither (W); second, Hennessy; third, tie between T. F. Mapon '30 and F. N. Nisson '30. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TAKES TWO ON APRIL TRIP, LOSES FOUR CLOSE GAMES | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...yard dash--Won by Vernon Munroe '31; second, F. 10. Cummings '30; third, J. Clark (W). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TAKES TWO ON APRIL TRIP, LOSES FOUR CLOSE GAMES | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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