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The race was close in the early laps with Kent and Bob Black fighting it out for first. In the last two laps, however, Black pulled way ahead to secure his lead, while Coggeshall came up to take third.
To win this praise farmers have done everything but turn their barns hayloft out. First thing was to use more & more machines; last year they bought a record-breaking $735,000,000 worth v. only $607,000,000 worth (at higher unit prices) in free & easy 1929. They also went...
* But not the fastest mile ever clocked. On an oversized track (6⅔ laps to the mile), Glenn Cunningham of Kansas once ran a mile in 4:04.4.
From Java she limped to Ceylon, tacking like a sailboat, and from Trincomalee to Capetown, choosing the shorter, safe laps of the long way round the world. Still shipping water, the Marblehead got home last week. This week her Captain, shy, soft-spoken Arthur G. Robinson, watched men swarming over...
Last week, matching strides with Miler MacMitchell, Mr. Dodds proved that he had learned a lot since his correspondence-schooling. Taking the lead on the third lap, he pulled farther & farther away from the field. At the halfway mark he was twelve yards in front. With only three laps to...