Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team members have done much to beat the handicap that poor local conditions have forced on them. Coddled through crises or broken boards and termite riddled underpinnings, the Woburn jump rises stable and strong less than a half an hour from Cambridge, the product of many long hours contributed by club members during the fall...
Spivak, a Sophomore who locked even more boyish alongside veterans like Barney Ewell, Eddie Conwell and Herby Thompson, was reasonably nerveless in all three sprints. He beat Herby Thompson in one of the qualifying heats, nailing second place. In his semi-final heat he broke on top and led all the way, winning in 5.6. Then came the final. The Crimson sprinter was way over his head in this one, finishing fifth behind Barney Ewell...
Back in Tokyo again, the Akai family built a tidy shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...come within a blade of winning the men's world figure-skating championship at Stockholm. When the judges picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year all non-European contestants will be barred). Said...
...Beat Behind. San Francisco was only a beat behind in belatedly discovering the greatness of Béla Bartók's music (TIME, March 18, 1946). Most listeners had stumbled on Bartók's harsh, stubborn harmonies, his jagged rhythms, and never got through to the original and melodic genius that audiences and critics were now beginning to find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions...