Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a starting crew built around a nucleus of three holdovers from last year's outfit, Coach Bert Haines is now sending his Varsity shell into its last practice trials before its opening regatta on Saturday, April 28, against Navy and M.I.T., and the second race the following week against Cornell and Tech...
Dear Jimmy. Washington knew, too, that while there had been no break between Byrnes and the President, their intimate relationship had sometimes been strained by the peculiarly personal vagaries of White House politics. Last year, Byrnes had been summarily taken out of the race for the Vice-Presidency. There was a time after that when he might have been Secretary of State. Finally he failed to get his friend, Ben Cohen, a job as counsel in the State Department...
...Department, anxiously trying to hold down the lid on its simmering race problem, at least until the war is won, retreated last week from a stern stand in the case of four mutinous Negro WACs...
Island of Thought. Overriding every G.I. discovery was the phenomenon of the people: they had no conception of the degree to which they had been thrust beyond the pale of the human race. Under Nazi rule, Germany had become an island of thought completely segregated from the outside world...
...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...