Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night there is snow, and its soft silent falling does much to cool his feverish vacation marathon. He finds that the mad dashings, the enforced gaieties which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so-virginal, so-hushed world, it becomes unseemly to talk loudly and vacuously with hometown people, to rush hastily from place to place, and to find final lodgement at the noisiest, the most crowded, most frenzied party-dance. But that is what everyone he knows insists on doing. And likewise...
Eliot House nosed out the harriers from Leverett to take cross country honors yesterday afternoon in the inter-House marathon...
House barriers will held at marathon tomorrow at 4 o'clock for intramural cross country honors...
...motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...Points are awarded for fifth place or better. Jacoby competed in 65 races-won 36 first places, ten seconds, eleven thirds, four fourths and three fifths, plus bonus points for the Albany marathon and national championship events...