Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winner Walt Linaweaver got away to a fast start and was never headed over the one-and-eight-tenth mile route that stretched completely around the inside of Soldiers Field and finished by circling the freshman track. In second position was Harvey Thayer of Winthrop and David Best of Dunster took third...
Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...
...More potential athletes and newspaper editors," added the gentleman, by way of example. In another corner: "The secret is to work not hard, but intelligently. Find the intellectual speed at which you work the most efficiently, and stay there...Find your pace...Remember everyone can't be top dog around here...
...ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...
...group around Mr. Conant was almost impenetrable, a fact which caused fretting among these circling on the periphery. In the vortex, Mr. Conant was slowly revolving as questions--the usual questions--were...