Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent 16 huge, cigar-shaped B-36s lumbering overhead...
Laurie Rossbach was the most valuable man for the Bunnies winning a tough 50-yard freestyle race. Frank Manheim of the last place Deacons contributed the best time of the meet, 31.2 in the 50-yard backstroke...
...Hialeah race fans had not been sentimental enough to make him the favorite, but for one shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
...Sunday papers: Hearst's Sun-Telegraph (circ. 600,000) and the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
Nobody came close to Chuck Hooizer in the 200 yard breaststroke, but it took a thrilling last minute sprint for Larry Ward to give Harvard its only sweep of the evening and reduce the Crimson deficit to a single point. In the next race Ted Norris tied the meet up at 34 to 34 by finishing exactly 30 yards ahead of the field in the 440 yard freestyle...