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Word: raced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...League is expected to be a race this year between Dartmouth and Yale. The Indians, in annexing the Sidney E. Hutchinson Cup (symbolic of Ivy League supremacy) last spring, took their fourth loop title since 1930. The Indians triumphed in 1930, 1935, 1938, and also in 1939 when the circuit operated on an informal basis. They won seven out of eight games last season, bowing only to Yale, which has also copped four Ivy League championships. Thus, both Dartmouth and the Elis will be out to break the 4-4 tie in League crowns...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Southern Nines Pose Threat; Marines, Navy Are Toughest | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

Capturing the title strengthened Kirkland's lead in the Straus Trophy race, upping the Deacon total by 115 points to 896. Lowell is second with 856 points, and Eliot is third with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Corrals House Volleyball Crown in Finals | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

...vacation, Love thinks be might have a pretty definite idea of who will fill the 24 slides and three coxswains' seats available at the opening race against Princeton and MIT, Saturday, April 23. Right now he's naming no names. He just wants to pile up mileage and watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Grooms Big Squad for '52 Oarsmen | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

Last year they saw Harvard sweep the river in the midst of whistles, hoots, Yachts, straw hats, long-legged and suntanned girls, seersuckered guys, and general bedlam. It was a joyous occasion but not unexpected. Tom Bolles has never lost a varsity race to Yale...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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