Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd. run. Bates's Rudy Smith supplied another surprise with a fine 1:10.6 for the 600, and Eastern Michigan's Hayes Jones skimmed the 60-yd. high hurdles in a meet record...
Chilly and swollen from melting snow were the waters of eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy River. In the evergreen-carpeted Cumberland foothills of Floyd County, where the Levisa Fork...
...varsity swimming team will face Yale this afternoon at New Haven, where, for the ninth consecutive year, it will attempt to move out of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, and for the ninth consecutive year it will remain in second place. The Crimson simply does not have the team strength to defeat the Elis; in fact, the varsity will find it extremely difficult to win more than 19 points...
Coach Bob Kiphuth of Yale has again put together a superb team, undoubtedly the best in the East, but which will probably not win the NCAA championships at the end of the month. In the Eastern Intercollegiate League they are overwhelmingly powerful, having little difficulty trouncing both weak teams and strong ones like Army, Dartmouth, and they will decisively defeat the varsity this afternoon...
Heavy snows, high winds and subnormal temperatures last week brought Eastern railroads-and their chilled passengers-their worst disaster in years. Nine inches of snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...