Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity one-mile relay team kept its relay lead Saturday night to defeat Princeton and Yale at the 29th annual Knights of Columbus Track Meet at Boston Garden. The 3:23.4 Crimson time was good enough to win the Daniel J. Kelly Memorial Trophy for the fastest mile run by a Bay State relay team...
Coach Bill McCurdy will enter two relay teams and several of his top runners in the annual Knights of Columbus Track Meet at the Boston Gardon tomorrow night...
...Columbus, Miss., the Bank of Commerce told Negro Dentist Emmett Stringer, ex-president of the state N.A.A.C.P., that though it had lent him money in the past, it would not do so in the future. Other citizens have taken up the practice of calling Stringer's mother up in the middle of the night to report: "Dr. Stringer has been killed." Added one imaginative caller: "Do you have his body...
...Customs Procedure. "Many goods take longer to pass through customs than it took Columbus to discover America," said a 1953 U.S. Government report. There are 20 different chargeable rates on fine animal hair, half a dozen for leather gloves, depending on whether the seam is sewn by hand or by machine. Charges often vary as much at 25% between New York and New Orleans, and at the end of 1953 there were some 750,000 unsettled customs entries-the equivalent of a full year's work-pending on inspectors' desks...
...race, which was held on the Scioto River, in Columbus, Ohio, was the Midwest's most important fall intersectional regatta. Last year the Crimson also took a second in this race...