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Word: race (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paced by Iron-man Hall Wonson, the Green's ace distance runner, the Dartmouth contingent includes Lee Trudean, who took seventh place in last year's race; Williams, a sophomore who took first honors in the Freshman event last fall; Bull, who trailed Williams by a scant second; and Foss and Gibbons...

Author: By Spencer Kiaw, | Title: HARRIERS RUN IN TRIANGULAR MEET | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...first nation in Europe there can be peace in Europe. Until then, never. Those who know Germans know they are a peace loving people, but once take away from them what they think is theirs, and you'll see the best fighters in the world. The German race is the greatest of our civilization. Compare them with the English and you'll find that in art, in war strategy, in every occupation Germans are superior. I believe Shakespeare himself was of German origin, was he not? Correct me on this. I would like to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...elections. If there were a Parliamentary vacancy of a seat formerly held by a Conservative, the Laborites agreed not to put up a candidate and vice versa. Last week, at a by-election in Glasgow, this idyllic state of affairs was impaired when Pacifist Andrew Stewart entered the race independently on a "Stop the War" platform against Laborite Arthur Woodburn, who supported the war. True to their pledge, the Conservatives did not put up a candidate. Result: Candidate Woodburn, 15,645; Candidate Stewart, 1,060. Candidate Stewart's comment: "The people are quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pluggers for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Although the Varsity times were a trifle slower than in last year's meet, Jaakko was not disappointed with the showing made by his charges, who will race Dartmouth and New Hampshire in a triangular meet next Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...ever the Big Three need to stick together in danger, now is the time. One side of the Eternal Triangle is collapsing. One stem of the race is vanishing. In a feature article, the usually unsensational New York Times announced that "Old Nassan's graduates were failing to a striking degree to reproduce themselves . . . and are dying out with amazing rapidity . . . The men now in college will have few descendants in six generations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

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