Word: finn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three men started from San Antonio over the concrete road to Austin, 89.4 miles away. Cool of dawn gave way to scorching heat of day as the runners loped easily along at a pace that would have frightened a Finn. After covering 30 miles Salido, sickened by fumes of automobiles which lined the road, succumbed to cramps; Zafiro and Torres, less sensitive, continued...
...third deliberate assault upon a record in recent years. "Jole" Ray and Paavo Nurmi made gallant attempts to lower the world's mile mark in 1923 and 1925. Both covered the distance in 4 minutes 15 seconds. Since Nurmi returned to his Scandinavian home, Wide has defeated the "Flying Finn". Last night the great Swedish runner failed by 20 seconds to lower the 3000 meter record, in a meet at Portland, Maine...
Fiction DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...
...Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are grown-ups now. Oddly enough, they had been simultaneously moved to write about their boyhoods. Neither improves on Mark Twain's version, but autobiography is always edifying...
...quite an authority, having had in them a lifelong interest. He can write about them, too, up to a certain incoherent point where the blissful inanity- or is it miracle?-of "just being alive" turns upon itself and leaves his lazy mind groping for words. Nowadays Huck Finn is called Sherwood Anderson...