Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the world this was front page stuff but to Italians it was panic. If Mr. Walters and Mr. Loveday were telling the truth, Dictator Mussolini was being knifed by Dictator Hitler. In Rome shaking fingers reached for the telegraph tape clicking off from Berlin: "FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS HAVE PUBLISHED REPORTS CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF THE GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL AT GENEVA TO A HIGH OFFICIAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS THESE REPORTS ARE UNTRUE THE POINT OF VIEW OF GERMANY CONCERNING NEUTRALITY AND NONPARTICIPATION IN SANCTIONS HAS BEEN IN NO SENSE MODIFIED." "Resist!" Two days later a solid trainload of German...
Playfair furnished an example of this last year, when, after having trimmed Woodland, Minor, and Canning of Yale in the H-Y-P meet, he trailed them to the tape along the rough Van Cortlandt course. Workouts in Brookline had been expected to obviate a similar upset this year, and until the news of Playfair's illness, Jaakko's team looked good for a victory...
...tape that binds the Freshmen to the Union. From the clerical standpoint they are free to dine in the Houses; there is the authorities' word for it. They need only sign slips in the Union some time in advance and then present them in the Houses at the proper hour, for all the dining halls are under the same management...
Channing of Harvard followed Woodland to the tape, while Henry Marcy of the Crimson harriers was edged out of fourth place by Princeton's Hogan, first of the Nassaumen to finish...
...With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...