Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words, etc. He has no concern with felicity of phrase, or the worth of what a man is trying to say. Last week, after surveying editorials in half a dozen big U.S. papers, Gunning told what he found: "Most editorial writers seem to confuse dignity with pomposity. Their marathon sentences, foggy words and abstractions put their pieces completely out of reach of all but the upper 5 to 10% of their readers...
...mile relay, Tufts' Ted Vogel, a cross-country star and B.A.A. marathon participant, ran the first 880 for the Jumbos, and gave his squad a fifteen yard lead it never lost. The Crimson, M.I.T., and Boston College jockeyed for second place, and the Tech anchor man moved ahead of Harvard's Ted Withington to finish behind Tufts.WES FLINT had a busy night at the Boston Garden Saturday night, anchoring the Crimson's mile relay team to victory over Brown and Holy Cross, and placing third in the 45-yard high hurdle event...
...Acapulco or bust" cried 80-odd 'Cliffedwelling mermaids this week as they breasted, crawled, and dog-paddled through Radcliffe's annual marathon which kept the Mason Street pool in a state of frenzy for five hectic afternoons. The distance from here to Acapulco was as nothing to the Amazons, since each length of the pool was considered 12 miles...
...marathon at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was half over, and no one seemed to be tiring. By last week 2,760 seat-holders and 100 standees had heard half of the more than 170 piano compositions Chopin wrote; in another month of weekly recitals they will have heard just about all of them...
...waste of time to play it, and no service to Chopin." When he had arranged his programs, Brailowsky memorized all 172 pieces. In 22 years he has played the cycle 15 times in Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and New York. Never before has his Chopin marathon sold sot well in Manhattan, helped this year by the movie-fed boom in Chopin...