Word: carnivaleers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a cold, windy drizzle, in front of an uncomfortable crowd in raincoats with newspapers spread over their knees, athletes from 500 schools and colleges, goose-fleshed in their shorts, competed in the annual Penn Relays carnival at Philadelphia.
Decathlon, Weather has more effect on this than any other event, for all ten efforts of the decathlon must be made in one day. To perform ten feats of strength, speed and agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven...
With the possibility that Captain Munroe, whose sensational finish captured the mile event at last year's carnival may be back in the running, and that Dodge, Record, Estes, and Hallowell continue in Saturday's form, the Crimson can look forward with confidence to the Greater Boston Intercollegiates next week...
Harvard will open its Spring track season this afternoon on Franklin Field, at the University of Pennsylvania, when Coach E. L. Farrell will send two quartets into action in the sprint medley and distance medley relays, against a field including the strongest Eastern track teams, gathered for the first test...
How hot the rhythm of "The Peanut Vendor" is best grasped by spectators at the Carnival of the blacks in Santiago de Cuba. On this annual occasion the town is turned over to the dark of skin, who dominate locally. Everything goes, without police interference, and no opportunities are wasted...