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Word: littlesond (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus showing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Grab | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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