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Word: marathoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York to Los Angeles today by rail takes 3 days and 11 and ¼ hours. By bus it can be done in 5 days and 14 hours. By automobile it recently took 4 days 8 hours and 47 minutes. By foot it has been done (in the "Pyle Marathon") in 23 days 21 hours. By boat, through the Panama Canal, it can beautifully and agreeably be accomplished in about 17 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dog | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Marathon. Won by El Ouafi of France, 2 hr., 32 min., 57 sec. This, the blue ribbon event of the Olympics is a race of 26 miles, 385 yards. El Ouafi is a spindle-legged, narrow-chested Algerian. He ran despatches for the French Government during the World War, now works in an automobile factory in Paris. He is 29, a vegetarian, drinks only milk and water. When the Marathon was three-fourths finished, he was just an obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Crandall took up residence in Pittsburgh, where he attended to the public relations of the Rollin Clark Circuit. Last year, he felt again the desire for greater, more gallant enterprises. Desiring to resuscitate and improve an old-fashioned amusement, he bought a dance hall and started his first dance marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

GOOD NEWS?Song-and-dance marathon which has been running since before college opened last year (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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