Word: promotoers
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When Nurmi first came to this country, it was hoped that he might promoto a closer harmony and a deeper mutual appreciation between the United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
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