Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ben Eastman, Stanford's world's record quarter-miler; Keith Brown, Yale jumper who last week helped beat Harvard for the Big Three championship; Bill Bonthron, Princeton's promising half-miler who wears such handsome clothes that they have twice been stolen from his locker at track meets: these are three of the track athletes who will perform in this week's Intercollegiate Championships at Cambridge, Mass, which as usual Stanford or Southern California is favored to win. They and the other entrants in the Intercollegiates last week had reason to consider with awe another athlete...
...large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor...
...Morse of '34, will run for Harvard in the spectacular 800-meter race, facing Bonthron of Princeton, Ben Eastman of Stanford, and Mangan of Cornell, the intercollegiate mile champion...
Burned, but not condemned to the crowd, were books by several U. S. authors: Helen Keller, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, John Dos Passes, Ex-Judge Ben Lindsey...
...When Ben Chapman, the New York Yankees' leftfielder, slid into second base, he cut the foot of Charley Myer, the Washington Senators' second baseman, with his spikes. Myer fell, picked himself up and then before Chapman could get up, kicked his leg. This was the incident which last week started the liveliest baseball fight in years. Players from both teams rushed out on the field. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington caught Chapman after he had taken a few punches at Myer. Umpires George Moriarty and Harry Geisel managed to restrain other players before the fight became general. They...