Word: marathoning
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Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...
Among the crew which dodged dogs, trolleys, land wayward cars was a local junior wearing a Crimson shirt. Bill Crissman was warming up for his third Marathon but spent three hours and 15 minutes learning the geography of nearby Brington...
...great moment for 39-year-old Roger. As a boy, under the nickname Bébert ("Dopey"), he had always been something of a joke. When he tried pole vaulting, the bamboo splintered. When he tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There...
...while swimming off Marathon Key for the purposes of relaxation and decrease of bodily temperature, I stepped on a Sea Horse, which is not actually a horse, but a protoplasmic thing with no vertebrae. I crushed the life out of it, and it died without a whimper or a gurgle. Robert W.Hill...
...those eleven weeks, Bradfordsville's marathon school strike has turned into a full-fledged civic crusade and a major religious ruckus. It began when the Marion County school board decided to shut down the Bradfordsville high school and to transfer its students to Lebanon, ten miles away. The board tried to explain that it had only one motive for its action: it merely wanted to provide better facilities through consolidation. But to the citizens of Bradfordsville. the whole scheme seemed some sort of plot...