Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water...
...Clarence De Mar, 43: the annual Boston 26 mi. 385 yd. marathon; entered for the 13th time; his seventh victory; by 400 yards...
...Boston Arena, countless couples pivot and tremble in a din of sobbing cornets and wailing saxophones. . Hollow-eyed and ghastly in the lurid light, they dance day after day. A marathon is on. They must not stop. A pot of gold is at the end of this insane rainbow. Days elapse and a jaded couple poses exhausted and physically shattered before the eyes of a nation to receive a purse of money...
...sculpture to be shown includes outstanding figures of the boxers Schmelling and Dempsey, as well as the famous marathon runner, Paavo Nurmi. Among the noted painters whose works will be shown are: Max Beekman, Carl Hofer, Max Kaus, and Otto Muelier; the outstanding sculptor of this exhibit is Wilhelm Lehmbruck...
...Indianapolis, Ind., three youths pleaded guilty to holding up banks. Said they, Harry Reed, William Stone, George Swift: "We have been in a dance marathon. We didn't know what we were doing. We were wrecks, physically and mentally, and had been doped so long we couldn't sleep. We had been doped for weeks. It was all hazy afterwards...