Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paced by six Dartmouth runners, with handicaps ranging from five to 600 yards, Cunningham ran his race almost exactly as he planned: the quarter mile in 58.5 sec., the half mile in 2:02.5, the three-quarter mile in 3:04.2 and-pumping his piston-like legs as fast as he could-the mile...
Since no team is out of the race for the Stanley Cup until it can no longer climb out of cellar place in its division, last week, with only five games to go, the hockey season was at its height. In the International Division-led by the Toronto Maple Leafs, with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans struggling for second place-the Montreal Maroons seemed destined to stay in the cellar. But in the American Division- with the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers well out in front-the Detroit Red Wings, in the cellar, were close...
...hair's breadth behind Tiny Thompson stood the goalie who has been the sensation of this season: Dave Kerr of the Rangers. Kerr last week had had 83 goals scored against him, and if Tiny Thompson should lose his slim two-goal advantage, Kerr would lead the race because in an extraordinary early season performance he had chalked up eight shutouts...
...version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests: tuberculosis research in Louisville, Ky., a U. S. Negro theatre...
Nazi objections to Hindemith's music are based not on his race (he is guaranteed pure Aryan), but on the technical character of the music itself. Hindemith discarded the melodious romanticism of traditional German music, defied all conventions of musical syntax, did in music what James Joyce and Gertrude Stein were doing in words. To Nazi censors, who frown on everything antiRomantic, Hindemith's music was pure anarchism...