Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time Joie Ray was the best miler in the U. S. But he was more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
...crazy thing to do. Ray had never run a long race. No middle distance runner has ever been a great marathon runner; it is easier for a man who has never done any running at all to learn long distance pacing than for a sprinter to change his style to the loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant...
...Crowden, physiologist of University College, London, made a 25 year study on a pair of identical twins. They had the same illnesses at the same time during this period. Their profile photographs superimposed in any year resulted in a perfect outline, with no marring double line. X-ray photographs of their skulls superimposed in every part, and their body measurements, height, weight were practically identical. Finger prints of one were mirror images of fingerprints of the other. The blood composition and count, the temperature and respiration rates were the same. They had the same temperaments and attitudes of mind. Accused...
...Joseph B., Robert C., Ray...
...Count of Ten. Charles Ray is the bashful bruiser, the simple-minded boy who could lick the champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count...