Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these programs, students at Harvard wanted Varsity athletics and they wanted to play Princeton. Likewise students at Princeton felt that the game with Harvard was really an essential part of a Tiger schedule. The result was a gradual rapprochement between the two. First the two crews raced each other, with MIT also in the race to act as a buffer. Then the minor sport competitions was resumed...
...Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
Yard touch football scoring records went up in smoke yesterday as Holworthy rolled over Claverly, 36-6, in the top game of three played. The win boosted Holworthy into second place in the American League race...
President Truman seemed headed for outright election, or at least a deadlocked race, at 3:45 a. m. this morning. He was ahead in 28 states with 292 electoral votes. Dewey led in 16 states with 201 electoral votes. Thurmond was ahead in four states with 38 electoral votes...
...outcome of the presidential race was doubtful throughout the evening. The Wallace vote, though only two and one half percent of the total cast, prevented Truman from running away with the election. At 3:37 a. m., the Wallace vote appeared likely to affect the result in several states...