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Word: miles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Channing '37, and Henry Marcy '37. With these two men gone, there remain a handful of hopefuls, but no winning performers. Captain for this year is John W. Erhard of Boston. Erhard ran very well against Yale last year, and showed deserved improvement by his third place in the mile race last spring at New Haven as a member of the track team. It is hoped that he will fill one of the vacancies left by former captain Channing, and Henry Marcy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

Alex Northrop's health is a constant heckler to Jaakko, for during the last year there has always been something to jeopardize his possibilities. In the winter it was bronchitis which left him in poor condition for the mile on a board track, and in the spring just as he was getting in good shape, he came down with a case of the measles. Nevertheless in the spring Yale meet he won the half-mile in the excellent time of 1:55.4. And what may prove to be the climax of his dogged career was his mile performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...post-War Pennsylvanians dubbed it "Dream Highway." Last week the first contracts were let for draining the tunnels and Pennsylvania prepared to spend $73,000,000 to make the dream come true. The new four lane road is the straightest practical line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, its 164½ miles being 40 miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway, 10,000 ft. will be missing in the new road. Only bottlenecks will be the two-lane tunnels. The almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Drained | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Resident at Perkins Institute, Larry, as he is known to friends at Phillips Brooks House, walks every morning a half mile to the street car which he boards for Harvard Square. This is during term time. In Summer he operates a small turkey farm in Woburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blind Senior Walks To Classes Unaided | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

...Annual Handicap Cross Country Run will be held on Wednesday, November 10. The winner of this event is given a photograph of the Gruggs Richard Trophy and his name is engraved on the original. For the Houses there will be a two and a half mile run on Wednesday, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Breaking Fall Season Looms for All House Sports | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

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