Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strengthening their position with second honors in the slalom and cross-country, the skiers went into the jumping event with more than a fair chance of complete victory...
Some facts can be told a second after the event just as well as they will ever be told. If the reader wants to know who won the third race at Pimlico and what he paid, TIME can't help him. (It might be of use to a reader who wants to know how the race was run and why the winner paid so much, or so little...
...facts" about the simplest news event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection...
...Frankmann, Bill Raney, and Stan Sheldon all came through in foils to give the Varsity an 8-1 advantage. In the epee event, Giles Constable and Chip Arp both took two matches, while John Ager won all three. Every saber-wielder lost at least once to give the fencers a slim 5 to 4 advantage over the Lions in that event...
...their final home dual meet of the season, the Crimson racked up six first places to Penn's three, capturing every event but the medley relay, the 100-yard freestyle, and the 200-yard breaststroke...