Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next year he announced that he was "too old and too busy to continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve...
...Great Circle. Even among airline men there are a few who still see no prospect of the air-navigated world en visioned by Billy Mitchell. They are astride a fence that airmen like Harold George have long ago taken in a hurdler's stride...
...strong wind prevented them from recording good times, but still the Crimson trackmen succeeded in scoring a 71 to 55 triumph in a meet at Exeter Saturday. Despite its good showing, the Red and Gray was handicapped by the absence of co-captain Bob Gill, high jumper and hurdler...
...other correspondent killed at Lisbon was no veteran. Frank J. Cuhel, 38, unmarried and a 1928 Olympic Games hurdler from Iowa, was an export firm's Java representative in 1941. Pearl Harbor changed his life. He became a Mutual Broadcasting System correspondent in the Dutch East Indies, survived many a bombing, got out a hop ahead of the Japs, then broadcast from Australia until last year's end. He did so well that Mutual decided to send him to North Africa...
...Flint, another hurdler, won his heat but failed to show up in the first ranks in the semi-finals. Moe Young and Fred Carr, middle-distance speedsters, trailed...