Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known definitely whether Harvard will enter a relay team, but if so, Coach Ulen will probably pick an upper classman to till out a team with these three...
Prospects for a fine mile relay quartet are excellent with such men as F.E. Cummings '31, N. P. Hallowell '32, J. W. Fobes '32, E. E. Record '32, R. J. Boches '32, V. L. Hennessy '30, and W. C. Rowe '31. From this group at least three exceptional quarter-milers are expected. Hallowell, R. C. Aldrich '31, and G. N. Barrie Jr. '32 appear to be the leading men in the half mile, but have sturdy opponents in Boches. A. M. Vinton '30, and several others...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
...rekindle the Flame nine torches were ready. They had been lit the day before in the farthest villages of Belgium's nine provinces. War veterans had carried them in "Sacred Relays" to Brussels-no great distance since the remotest edge of the kingdom is only 114 miles away. While the last nine relay runners panted and held their flaming torches high, King Albert laid a huge wreath of purifying chrysanthemums around the polluted orifice. Then with a loud S-s-s-s-s the gas was turned full on. Simultaneously the runners thrust their torches into...
...remedy for the situation seems to be fairly obvious. A dummy clock such as is used at hockey games could be easily and inexpensively installed at the top of the main score board over the steel stands. The signaller on the field could relay the official time at regular intervals, and it could then be registered for the enlightenment of some 60,000 anxious onlookers...