Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark to win the $34,050 Chesapeake Stakes by two lengths over ten other Derby eligibles ¶ln Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.C Olympian Sim Iness bettered his own N. C. A. A. discus mark by a full 2 ft. New record: 185 ft. 5¼ in. World record...
...best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers for U.S. Olympian Art Devlin-and Riisnaes...
...With one stroke of his would-be Olympian pen, your reviewer ruled out the best of Hardy, Frost, Yeats, Auden, Millay, E. A. Robinson and many others writing in many languages...
...always took a somewhat Olympian view of human affairs, refusing himself to engage in the struggle between opposing ideologies. He was, in my judgment, one of the half-dozen most distinguished thinkers of his day, and one who knew how to make literature out of philosophy...
...Hagen collects her coteric--an estranged husband, a secretary, and a dimwitted Southerner by the name of Beansy--all of whom, with the aid of their respective Latin admirers, carry the ball of repartee for the better part of the show. With the material at hand, it is an Olympian task, and it is no wonder that Director George Abbott was forced to throw in a liberal sprinkling of decolletages and torch singing to keep the play moving. Bumps and grinds are all right in their place, but one can't help wondering, after Othello, Streetcar, and Saint Joan, whether...