Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...
Over the sprawling Chinese war front Japanese troops last week continued their advance, shrinking still further the semicircle they have drawn around Hankow, temporary Chinese capital. For every mile gained, however, the Japanese paid a fancy price in blood and munitions. To replace gaps caused by death and sickness, 26,000 Japanese soldiers moved up the Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile...
Champion over the Varsity 4 1/2 mile course was Pon Tuttle '40, who ran the distance in 22 minutes, 29 seconds, leading John Frederickson of Boston University by 20 yards. Spectators were surprised to see Tuttle come in with one feet bare; he had lost his right shoe a mile back...
James Igo of Boston University won the Freshman 1 7-10 mile race in 14 minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...
Running the first seven places for the Varsity will be: Roswell Brayton, captain, Jean Clark, who ran second to Northrop in the Yale mile last year, Ken Tuttle, Bob Nichols, Charlie Old-father, who won the freshman mile against Yale last year, Dick Wing, and Dave Simboli. Sodka and Jay are expected to make the best showing for the Freshmen...