Word: matted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cross country coach Jaakko Mikkola always dusts off the welcome mat for prospective runners. This week, he'll hold a meeting for erstwhile pavement pounders at his headquarters in Dillon Field House. Practices are held on what is known as the University Handicap Course, a cinder strip running parallel to the Charles River as far as the Metropolitan Police Station. For meet competition, both Freshman and Varsity squads move to Dorchester's Franklin Park...
Guided by this philosophy, Mikkola always dusts off the welcome mat for first year men. Next week, he'll hold a meeting for erstwhile pavement pounders at his headquarters in Dillon Field House. Practices are held on what is known as the University Handicap Course, a cinder strip running parallel to the Charles River as far as the Metropolitan Police Station. For meet competition, both Freshman and Varsity squads move to Dorchester's Franklin Park...
...Strange & the Profane. But such tributes cannot define De la Mare's quality nor pin his shoulders to a critical mat. In contemporary literature no figure is more elusive. Even De la Mare's best friends sometimes think of him as a creature they may have imagined, and he himself long ago made it clear that in imagination he has his breath and being...
...evening in Manhattan's old Hippodrome twelve years ago, Ed ("Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two boring hours, the Hippodrome was nearly empty -and legitimate wrestling was dead...
...Room. Some of the European countries found that they had oversold their attractions. Sweden even bought ads in U.S. newspapers discouraging midsummer travel-its hotels were full. But most still had the welcome mat out. The Netherlands was advertising the Queen's Golden Jubilee; Belgium plugged two international fairs and the famed Belgian cuisine; Norway touted its fjords; Britain listed the Olympics, horse races and regattas; Italy had an arm-long series of fairs and festivals from hot jazz to trapshooting. Europeans hoped that U.S. tourists would spend $300 million this year, twice as much...