Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race, Dyke Benjamin became the first Crimson runner ever to win the Heptagonals, the first to win every contest of the regular cross-country season, and the first harrier captain to lead his team in every regular-season race...
...Despite Benjamin's effort, however, the harriers placed fifth in the overall competition, losing to Army, Yale, Navy, and Brown. Army's squad functioned ruthlessly and efficiently, placing five well-oiled runners in the first twelve finishers. Yale squeaked by Navy, 84 to 85, managing to turn in another close win after their 27-28 defeat of the Crimson last week...
...varsity cross country team will be fighting for third place today in the Heptagonal Meet at Van Cortlandt Park. Army is a virtual shoe-in, with five juniors who have all run faster than Dyke Benjamin on the New York course; and Navy, second last year, should not be far behind...
...Benjamin has been working hard, according to McCurdy, and should be "tough." Were he to win tomorrow, it would be the first time a Crimson runner has won all his races during the course of a season...
...Venusberg. Some of her lovers ran successively, some concurrently. Some remained hers for months, others for years. Author Benjamin (Adolphe) Constant was in Germaine's toils for almost a quarter-century. By middle age, she ruled, in Author Herold's words, "like Venus over the damned souls in the Venusberg, like Calypso over shipwrecked travelers, like Circe over her menagerie...