Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young British miler since Jack Lovelock, is expected to run the fastest American mile of the season in Monday's 15th Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet at the Stadium. The slim Oxford medical student did 4:11.1 at Princeton Saturday for one of the four first places the Englishmen picked up in losing to Princeton-Cornell, 9-4. The only faster mile which has been run in the United States this spring was a 4:10.1 by Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann in the Kansas Relays...
More will be known about the capabilities of the Oxford-Cambridge team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
M.I.T. on the other hand is vastly improved. The Engineers did not even have a full team for the early season encounter and since then has bolstered itself with a new shipment of ruggers, including two or more bona fide Englishmen. Tech is especially strong in the "hooker" position, the middle man in the front row of the scrum who tries to kick the ball back to his backs...
Perhaps the finest point of "Grand Illusion" is the way in which it captures that nebulous quality called "atmosphere." The Frenchmen speak French, the Germans speak German, and the Englishmen speak English; the landscape and the dismal PW camps couldn't be more authentic, and the snatches of old songs ring absolutely true. There are no heroes and no villains-only individuals caught in the hopeless drama of their generation and accepting their roles quite philosophically...
...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...