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Word: miles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walking heel-&-toe, British style, one can move twice as fast (a mile in 6 min., 30 sec.) as with an ordinary gait and two-thirds as fast as the best mile runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pastimes' Past | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard in 1936, Dartmouth in 1937, Yale by a mile last year; and to round things out it is a brilliant Cornell aggregation that is favored to cop the fourth annual Quadrangular track meet in the Boston Garden tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL FAVORITE TO WIN TRACK MEET | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Although the Donnelly-Lerner-King-Lightbody baton brigade will have a hard time in beating Cornell's crack mile relay team, particularly since the Crimson anchorman is also entered in the 600, Jaakko's capable 880 artists, Joe Olive, Jack McClure, Chick Old-father, and Al Hanlon, should coast through the tape in the two mile event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL FAVORITE TO WIN TRACK MEET | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Gene Clark and Ros Brayton in the mile seem outclassed by Eli Bill Holderness and Dartmouth's iron-man Hal Wonson who is also running in the 1000, but in the two-mile grind Dave Simboli will undoubtedly finish up among the leaders, although an up-and-coming New Haven lad named Ronald Clark is conceded a definite edge, and Cornellian Ranney looks good

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL FAVORITE TO WIN TRACK MEET | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...feature event of the meet Glenn Cunningham nipped Chuck Fenske in a 4:15.5 mile as Gene Venzke was third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Shock Troops Fail To Star in VFW Track Meet | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

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