Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however. Crucial contests loom with Yale, Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton, and he is working as hard and fast as possible to pull the squad into top shape. The familiar names of Chuck Hoelzer, Tommy Woods, Larry Ward, and Joe Fox highlight the possible lineup for the 300-yd. medley relay. But there is more depth in the relays this season than could be mustered last year, and Norm Watkins, Paul Killoran, and Jim Mac-Vicar are also possibilities in the freestyle division of the relays...
Quiet, dark-haired Jim Pursell, a onetime relay runner at U.S.C., was too wise to monkey with Patton's basic style of running. After one look at him, he decided that what the kid needed most was time to develop. Pursell kept him on the "B" squad as long as he dared (until Mel ran a 10.2 against Manual Arts High one day). Then the coach began to rub OR some polish...
When Maria's olive branch flamed up, she touched it to a 2,400-year-old lamp (see cut). From the lamp, the Olympic torch was lighted and handed to a runner, who began the long relay to London, with an armed escort...
During the Olympic Games of antiquity, the bellicose cities of ancient Greece invariably observed a "sacred truce." This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...
...thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to & from the frontal lobe. When these nerve pathways get out of whack, the doctors reasoned, emotional control becomes disturbed and insanity results. Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain...