Word: placing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bracket of the cross country men of the East has been spectacular. He has been the first Crimson harrier to finish in every race the team has had this year. His climax performance was a third in the Heptagonal meet last Saturday, pacing the Mikkolamen to a first place tie in the team totals with Cornell...
...seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront of contemporary letters...
...events, tabulated them (on a point system, of 10-5-4-3-2-1), and concluded that the U. S. -with a total of 209 3/10 points-still has the best track & field athletes in the world. Ranking second was Finland, with 108 points-34 points better than third-place Germany, 94 better than sixth-place Britain...
...tying for first place in the first annual Heptagonal meet, the Crimson gained half of a leg on the Junius T. Auerbach Memorial Trophy. Yale with 76 points, Princeton with 87, Dartmouth with 94, and Penn with 134 trailed in that order, as Columbia failed to finish a team...
Mainstays of the Crimson's victory push were Langy Burwell, Jim Lightbody, and Gene Clark, who finished closely bunched up in third, fourth and fifth places. Penn Tuttle's eighth place and Dick Wing's seventeenth clinched the case for the Mikkolamen, as Dave Simboll and Joe McLoughlin finished out of the money--twenty-second and twenty-seventh respectively...