Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Pheidippides staggered up to the city gates, announced that the Persians had been defeated and fell dead of exhaustion, he was lucky. In a modern marathon race, he would have failed to reach the finish. The 193 runners who left Hopkinton, Mass, last week had 26 mi., 385 yd.* between them and Exeter Street in Boston. A light wind fanned into their faces. Old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won the Boston Marathon seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along...
...Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between the crowds roped off along the sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting down to a plate of beef stew in the Boston A. A. clubhouse when the other runners arrived...
Last week conservatives found an issue on which to battle their pastor to a finish. In Pilgrim Church's study room, given four years ago by Founder-Board Chairman Elbridge Amos Stuart of Carnation Co. (milk products), there had appeared seven murals done by a young people's art class under the supervision of Ross Gill. Subjects of the murals...
...Parrish had raised the stroke a little sooner to equal that of the Lowell House oarsmen, it is probable that the third varsity would have crossed the finish line yesterday afternoon a little ahead of the Bellboys...
There was an almost defiant smile on Coach Charley Whiteside's face yesterday as he watched the first two Varsity crews race down the half mile straight-away and finish in the choppy water neck and neck for a tie. Princeton and Navy showed themselves to be among the fastest crews on the mile and three quarter course in the country; but Charley is sure that his crew will be able to come in ahead of the Tigers on Lake Carnegie, May 5, if it registers the expected improvement in the next two weeks...