Word: entrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that Mr. Reed will, when he next speaks of Mr. Finley, recall the benefits of a Master who knows, and cares for, every entrant's name. Cedric H. Whitman Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...
...junior singles, Ed Tripp, who rowed for the Yale and Cambridge crews and for the Leander Boat Club at Henley, will be an entrant from Weld Boathouse...
This morning 444 runners will jog from Hopkinton, Mass. to the Prudential Tower in the traditional 26-mile Boston Marathon. A Belgian, Aurele Vandendries, is favored in the gruelling race, while unpredictable Wait Hewlett is Harvard's leading entrant...
...seventh International Chopin Piano Competition began with a cloud of controversy and ended with a puff of perfume. As the field of 83 contestants was whittled down, one U.S. entrant who was eliminated lodged a sourgrapes complaint that the judges (14 from Communist nations, seven from Western countries) were "unfair" in advancing all twelve Russian and Polish performers. Yet when the final round opened last week, for the first time in the 38-year history of the competition (held every five years, except for an interruption during the war) there was not a single Russian in contention. If anything...