Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore John Gillis produced a strong finishing burst to hold off B.C.'s Mark Murray for the victory in the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run. Chunky Jon Enscoe hung back in second place for most of the collegiate mile race before unleashing a blistering kick with a lap and a half remaining for a ten-yard margin at the wire. An uneven pace accounted for the relatively slow time of 4:15.3 despite Enscoe's strong last quarter of 61.5 seconds...
Yardlings Bud Wilson, Bob Seals, John Keating, and Jim Davis combined forces for a five-yard victory in the Freshman Mile Relay while the varsity foursome of Gillis, Tom Downer, Ben Lounsbury, and Ed Dugger were edged by Rutgers at the finish of their mile relay race...
...utility stocks, which should do better than high flyers in a quieter economic climate. "For the short term, the speculative boom is over," says Research Director Walter Stern of Burnham & Co. "Too many people have been buying too many stocks for the wrong reasons. There has been a race for instant profit based on tips and stories of impending deals. The bubble has to burst...
...going through the creative effort of portraying them dramatically. Yet Eliot, as always, emerges as the one character of considerable authenticity. Most likely this is because he contains so many of Snow's own convictions and so much of Snow's concern for the future of the race. Montaigne once said, "I am myself the subject of my works," and for an essayist that was enough. It is not enough for a novelist. In The Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need to have him in a particular place at a particular moment...
...Blake, with its preoccupation with individual responsibility and the morality of action. He gives to Cary's friend, the critic Lord David Cecil, the first and last words on Cary the man: "Something at once heroic and debonair in his whole personality suggested a gentleman rider in the race for life, [but] the gentleman rider was also a sage and a saint." Alas, biographies of less sterling gentlemen than Gary have made far livelier reading...