Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throughout the leadership race, hard realities had been the sole concern of George Drew and his backers. Drew's first and most potent backers were the big businessmen: Toronto's "Bay Street Boys" and their allies from Montreal's St. James Street. But Candidate Drew had not depended wholly on them. With smiling charm and political skill he had lined up the leaders from eight provinces before the convention opened. The one exception: Saskatchewan, pledged to Favorite Son John Diefenbaker, champion of a Bill of Rights for Canada...
...intellectual race, Tony Arnold thought, Radley would win in a walk. Said he: "At Radley, I used to tell my master that I planned to do an essay on some subject. It wasn't the deadline that mattered, it was the quality. At Kent, we were told to have an essay ready on an assigned subject by Monday morning. Everybody just dashed off something with the least possible effort. Students at Kent are just shoehorned along to graduating." The boys talked about sex "for hours & hours," but were innocent of political ideas...
Still Speaking. Jones observes: "Vital religion cannot be maintained and preserved on the theory that God dealt with our human race only in the far past ages, and that the Bible is the only evidence we have that our God is a living, revealing, communicating God. If God ever spoke, He is still speaking ... He is the Great I Am, not a Great...
...Tufts and Holy Cross yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, lifting the lid on their 1948 cross country schedule. In addition to a slow course, a truck the runners were following led them 170 yards out of the way and a Tufts freshman fainted just after the start of his race, which went to the Crimson Yardlings...
With more than six months until the season's opening race, Bolles in hardly committing himself on the subject of a prospective first boatload. He will not even guarantee that his five returnees can hold down their jobs next year...