Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole exchange was conducted in the most Olympian of legal tones, but it did not take a lawyer to detect that the President would be walking into a first-class tussle when he made the new appointment...
From John L. Lewis' headquarters came only an Olympian snort: "The mountain labored and brought forth a Moody." But even Lewis could not laugh off the sad facts of how high-priced coal is being squeezed out of the market by oil and gas. Coal production has dropped from 630.6 million tons in 1947 to an estimated 440 million tons this year. The industry's 440,000 miners averaged only 3.3 days' work last week, but in the southern mines some worked less than two days...
Turnstiles & History. As the proprietors of an expensive ten-acre layout of steel, concrete and lovingly tailored grass in The Bronx known as Yankee Stadium, the New York Yankees Inc. are today full of a rich and understandable satisfaction. The Olympian Joe DiMaggio is gone, and there will never be another DiMaggio?just as there has never been another Babe Ruth or another Lou Gehrig (Yankees all). But with only one full season in the major leagues to his credit, Mickey Mantle already shows signs that he may be another Olympian in the making...
...Ames, Iowa, Kansas Olympian Wes Santee, winging around the track in the Big Seven championships, set a new collegiate mile record of 4:06.3, clipping four-tenths of a second off the old mark set by another famed Kansan, Glenn Cunningham...
...Philadelphia, Morgan State College's 440-and 880-yd. relay teams, anchored by Olympian Art Bragg (who also won the 100-yd. dash), ran off with the Penn Relays sprint honors. The distance-medley and four-mile titles went to the University of Michigan...