Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days as he watches his men plowing up and down Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool lanes in preparation for the opening meet a week from Saturday with the Greenwood A. C. Particular events are very strong, and one of them boasts a pair of national champs who will race each other to the wire every time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even...
...only some power could take from us our smugness, self-satisfaction, our naive belief that now as a race we really have arrived somewhere; if we could face our barbarism honestly we might eventually do something about...
...week's sampling of the state of U.S. race relations...
...under 16. The title derives from a large, red-haired horse that has what appears to be delicate baby-blue eyes veiled with beautiful false eyelashes. After long training by a small, red-haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...
Romantic Heroes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were romantics, Jeffersonian idealists, enthusiastic, ardent, poetic, hopeful, trusting. They named the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy. But their men, the soldiers and hunters in the party, were down-to-earth, matter-of-fact characters. They liked to race ponies with the Indians, carouse with their squaws, dance square dances whenever they made camp...