Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiftles Race a Classic...
...Tech men on the other hand average 181 1/2 pounds. But Coach Jim Manning figures he has a better crew than last year and one which may stage a surprise showing in today's classic...
...mile bicycle trip from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...
Despite this greater candor, critics are not likely to describe Saturday Evening Post stories as very strong meat. Of the 22 in Post Stories of 1937, seven follow its classic pattern of a happy ending with marriage or its promise, and three others salute the beginnings of romance in their last sentences. The favorite story of Post writers is that of an inconspicuous worthy who is pushed around at first, finally comes out on top, usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal...
...Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave way as the locomotive passed over it, dropped the caboose in which he was riding 40 feet into a flooded river, killing nine men and injuring...