Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew rowed three miles this morning, while the other crews took longer rows of five miles apiece. In the afternoon the first eights went to the three-mile mark trying racing starts under the eye of Coach Brown, while the Jayvees repeated the same performance shortly after...
...London, Conn,. June 17--Extremely hot weather once more prevented strenuous workouts on the part of the University crews, while interest is temporarily diverted to the waiters crew which rows Yale on the half-mile course Thursday...
...Englishmen registered times and distances in their Stamford Bridge meet which were disappointing, and below expectations. Nevertheless Sartain of Cambridge broad jumped 22 feet, 8 1-2 inches and his team mate R. W. Evans was but two inches short of the mark. Green of Cambridge ran the mile in 4 minutes, 22 1-5 seconds, and Guttteridge of Cambridge was clocked in 1 minute, 57 1-5 seconds for the half mile. J. M. Pumphrey of Oxford ran three miles in 14 minutes, 59 seconds, while F. W. Teitcherine of Cambridge was just over 59 seconds for the quarter...
...Mile run: C. E. G. Green, C.: David Cobb...
...link between the Guatemala and the Salvador railway will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad...