Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock the ticket office of the H. A. A. will open to members of the University who wish to see Paavo Nurmi, the Finish track marvel, run in the Stadium on Friday afternoon. Two tickets in sections 1 to 26, which constitute the whole east side of the stands, will be alloted to each member in the order of application. These tickets will not be specified for any particular seats but for general admission to the sections...
...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...
...Said jokesters, jape-makers: "Paavo Nurmi did not run!" (Paavo Nurmi is, as everyone knows, the famed Finnish runner, who in the past seven weeks has established 26 new world's records, competing...
...mile: Paavo Nurmi; time...
...3/4-mile: Paavo Nurmi; time...