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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When bands are playing, the air is crisp, and thousands crowd into the stadium on a Saturday afternoon, a hundred-odd cross country harriers got many an unappreciated shin-splint pounding the turf along the Charles or in the grueling four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1946 | See Source »

With a greatly superior team, the Technicians from down the river easily captured top honors from a less-experienced Crimson squad in a 4.25 mile cross-county bout at Franklin Park Friday. As MIT finished with 30, Harvard nosed out Tufts for second position by two points, 72 to 74. Northeastern and Holy Cross followed with 79 and 87 points, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Wins Cross Country Jaunt As Crimson, Jumbos Trail Behind | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...solid week of conferences and reports was too much for the 63 governors of the World Bank and Monetary Fund. By the time their first annual meeting droned to an end in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, they were doodling, yawning and fanning themselves with the agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Doodling & Disequilibrium | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Last week Bishop Sherrill proposed a scheme to keep homeless Presiding Bishops out of Central Park. Said he: the Church should buy an estate within 30 miles of New York, house the P.B. and his staff there, eventually build it into "an Episcopalian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wanted: One Apartment . . . | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...with a home-town World Series for the first time in a quarter-century, New England's attention for the next week will be focussed on box scores and line totals. But, once the gloves are oiled for the last time and the goal posts go up in Fenway Park, Massachusetts can devote itself to the biennial autumnal pastime: Politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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