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Moving over into the running events, the dash men are strong and improving. Frank Coolidge seems to hold the edge here, but Fred Carr and Joe Moore are coming, and may press him later. In the hurdle events, Wes Flint, another Noble and Greenough graduate, has a strangle hold on the top position. He is very fast and has good form; Jaako calls him "very good." Following him over the timber are two beginners, Al Houghton and George Earley. Houghton is pretty fair, but Earley is stiff, and must loosen up. In the low hurdles, Ted Withingham, Exeter alumnus...
...well-developed one, of the Nipponese variety (very popular with our ships). . . . The sub was sluggish in her movements-she maneuvered slowly, endeavoring to stay within our turning circle, and cross our wake. After a bit of maneuvering, we made our turn, estimated her course, and attacked. A short dash at full speed, a good barrage in the approved spot, and the attack was finished...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve...
Bill Glidden's solo dash opened the scoring action the first period, and when Captain Dick Mechem duplicated his feet inter in the canto, the Yardlings came out of the period leading...