Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...export drive is hampered by Japan's limited railroad and trucking facilities. A million and a half tons of goods are now piled up at railroad sidings waiting shipment to docks. To break such bottlenecks and broaden its export base, Japan will import 1,300,000 tons of steel...
Wells, perhaps one of the best break-away runners around, may be Tufts' most dangerous threat this afternoon. He was the second highest scorer in New England last year with 73 points, on 12 touchdowns and one extra point, and he had four touchdowns on runs of more than 65 yards...
...M.I.T. team runs as a group, in an attempt to bunch its scorers ahead of its more scattered opponents. But Crimson strategy will send two or three runners into an early lead, in an effort to force the Engineers to break up their grouping. Coach Bill McCurdy, taking advantage of his team's great depth, intends to form a solid group with his other runners, thus consolidating the varsity scoring punch...
Hidden check points are placed strategically along the route to penalize those who violate the assigned speed or who otherwise break the law. At the end, speedometers are checked and the car which has covered a distance nearest that of the specified course at a speed closest to the assigned speed is declared winner...
Junior Pete Reider, running from scratch, covered the distance in 17 minutes, 11 seconds to break the record for the race, 18 minutes, 34.5 seconds, set in 1954 by Bill Morris...