Word: macadam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to win the Boston A. A. Marathon-26 mi. over macadam and concrete roads from Hopkinton to a finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when...
Today a line of motor lorries stretches itself out over macadam highways. The occupants are clad warmly from head to foot, and some of the women wear fur coats. They can joke and sing because they have just had coffee and doughnuts provided them at the last town, and someone will look after them tonight. The procession of trucks, for which $100 each has been paid, is flanked by motorcycle troopers who will escort them to the next city, and there they will be feted and photographed. They call themselves the "Hunger Marchers...
Liquidation seemed likely, perhaps an auction of the properties. From posters at hairpin curves and blind bridges no more would Fisk's stocky little boy, ready for bed, candle in hand, peer down the dull macadam way with his grinning advice...