Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next step was clear: to persuade the Japanese nation that inevitable defeat does not mean that the race will be wiped out, or that its future is everlastingly hopeless. If the ill-matched communication systems between Japanese and American minds could somehow be bridged, the war might be shortened...
Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
Union pickets at the plants paid little heed to those who bought single copies, sometimes spilled the bundles of those who bought more. Many of the strikers were in high good humor; they had made a killing on Picket Line in the third race at Aqueduct, collecting $46.20 for their $2 investment...
...person of Gil Dodds, famed miler, who is pursuing his divinity studies at the Graduate School of Education here. Although he cannot compete for Harvard, he has been working out at Soldiers Field, and it is hope that he may later be induced to run in an invitation race here...
...been based upon an equally vague phrase in the U.S. Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, "without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion." But this section contains a serious res ervation: except where an actual breach of international peace has occurred or is imminent, the United Nations may not intervene in matters "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of a member nation...