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Word: marathons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWAMLING IN THE SEA | 2/24/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Marathon Strike | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

University physicists are sitting up on a grim "death watch" this morning at the Everett St. Cyclotron Lab after starting up the balky 745-ton machine for a non-stop, three week marathon...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: 3-Week Vigil Set to Avoid Cyclotron Halt | 11/13/1954 | See Source »

...commercial time remains unsold. As a result, Allen's easy, oh-so-casual delivery becomes choppy and labored. Tonight's 90 minutes (plus a 15-minute local broadcast) forces him to rely on singers and special news telecasts as a respite from what is plainly a TV marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Review of the Week | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Winnie Roach Leuszler, 28, the only Canadian woman to conquer the English Channel. The other: blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 16, a 119-lb. Toronto high-school girl whose only claim to swimming fame was that she had been the first woman to finish in a marathon swim in Atlantic City in July. Neither Winnie nor Marilyn stood to get $10,000-or even $1- from the C.N.E...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Water Baby | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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