Word: oldest
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...Boxing is practically the oldest sport; it was played in the Greek Olympics," Bozer said. "There are fewer injuries in boxing than in intramural tackle football. It has been at Harvard for over 30 years...
...legendary Vanderpool-Wallace had leaped to 24 ft. 5 1/2 in. and looked like a sure winner when the Pitt senior came through with a 25 ft. 7 in. jump, breaking the oldest record in NCAA annals. Rea, seven-time titlist in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletes of America championships, said Saturday that he had not had too much competition in the past two years, but VPW's best jump has spurred...
AFTER 21 MONTHS of bitter denunciation and unbridled hostility on both sides, the Farah Manufacturing Company has finally recognized the rights of its 9000 workers to join one of the country's oldest labor unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Company president Willie Farah once said that he would rather "go bankrupt than unionize." But faced with a National Labor Relations Board judge's condemnation, a growing group of angry stockholders and a determined union willing to continue the boycott indefinitely, Farah had few alternatives to choose from...
...legend but a social commentator whose tart views reach an audience far beyond Boston. Besides writing four columns a week for the Globe, he discourses once a week on the CBS Morning News show and again on a local Boston TV program. At 62 he is one of the oldest writers to get an assignment from Rolling Stone. Most journalists his age have the years gentle their pace or prejudices. Frazier is as eager as ever to flay those he thinks pompous...
...Jamieson is a product of the rough-and-tumble earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took any work...