Word: gil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock last Saturday Gil Dodds easily won the Harvard-Tufts-Coast Guard cross country meet in 17:48, breaking the previous course record of 19.1 by a minute and 13 seconds, and coming in a full minute ahead of his closest trailer, Vogel, of Tufts, who also broke the record. Coast Guard won the triangular meet with 38 points; Harvard came in second with 40, and Tufts was last with...
Sports fans on the south bank of the Charles River at 2 o'clock tomorrow will have the opportunity to see one of America's fastest humans compete with collegiate runners as Gil Dodds brings an informal Gordon Seminary quartet into the triangular Harvard - Tufts - Coast Guard cross country meet...
...endless Riff campaigns, got to be a major at 23 and the youngest general in a standard European army at 32. His fortunes sagged for a time under the Spanish Republic, then brightened when a Rightist Government came into power in 1935 and his friend, War Minister Jose Maria Gil Robles (now exiled leader of the Catholic CEDA) made him Chief of Staff...
...something over 70,000 people paid one peso each to view El Fakir. They included 25 doctors (a vacationing U.S. doctor tried to wiggle El Fakir's toes, caused him much pain), five bull fighters, 65 Mexican cinema actors, one ex-President (Portes Gil), two boxers, two wrestlers, and a lady editor from the erstwhile antagonist Novedades, who wrote: "After knowing him I have been enchanted." A radio station broadcast reports of El Fakir's condition and a movie theater combined a newsreel of El Fakir with Disney's Bambi...
Finally Hägg pulled up in front. In the final stretch Gil Dodds decided to move ahead. He charged heavily past Hulse, then past Hägg, pounding the track with laborious, clubbing gait. Hägg, who consistently looks around, had seen him coming. He seemed to turn on no more steam, or to speed his pace. He just exchanged places with Gil Dodds, whirled smoothly to the lead, won again...