Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol steps, conducted before an $80,000 grandstand erected by the 80th Congress, in anticipation of a Republican President. But there were some 80 other special events, from a Hollywood variety show to the formal Inaugural Ball in the National Guard Armory. There would be a 7-mile-long parade, with 40 floats, 30 bands, a steam calliope, thousands of marching troops and civilians, an air umbrella of 650 military aircraft...
They were homesick for Bikini, and the Navy could not make them fully understand why Bikini was not a suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best...
Jaakko will get a lineup on his freshman mile relay squad, as well as another look at his varsity, in the course of the evening. Yearlings Eddie Turtzner, John Packard, Tom McGrath, and Ronnie Merman will be running, and Mikkola sees the chief trouble coming from the Yale and Dartmouth '52 squads...
...loss of Captain Dave Hamblett from the varsity mile team will slow down the Crimson in that event--"possibly as much as three seconds"--and Maine should be the team to beat. Burt Brown will take Hamblett's place. The rest of the team will be Harvey Thayer, Pat McCormick, and Al Ruby...
...Yardling mile relay team of Tom McGrath, John Packard, Ronald Berman, and Eddle Turtzner is "one of the best in years," Mikkola commented...