Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Tuesday Mikkola put his team through a brisk six mile workout along the riverbank and on Wednesday followed up with speed work in the cinders. On paper, tomorrow's race should be fairly close, with the edge going to the engineers on the strength of their depth through the middle with Poorman, Goldie, and Ray. Running number two, three, and four for M. I. T., these men form the backbone of a well-balanced team...
Injuries which have jinxed Sid Correll and Jim Foley for most of the season, will definitely keep both of these regulars out of tomorrow's race. States coach Mikkola, "the team will have to turn in their best effort of the year to win this...
Ironic part of Blanchard's sweeping the race is the fact that last fall he was running over the same course for Harvard. But just as a V-12 switch brought ace halfback Marvin Jenkins from Tufts into the Crimson fold, so Blanchard was transferred to Tufts...
Roger Dearborn Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth...
...tempers in the lobby. When they finally went out to Briggs Stadium, the red-hot Tigers continued the cooling-off treatment. And when the Boston Red Sox followed the Yankees into Detroit they got more of the same-to the point where they were really frozen out of the race...