Word: rucking
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...rowing the main part of the race at a 32, was not pushed. The Lowell House Bellboys, who had failed to qualify but entered after winning a consolation race by default, finished half a length behind the second place Deacons, while Adams and Leverett were well back in the ruck...
...foot-racing crown seemed glued to his head. Although he had been running for eight years, barrel-chested, iron-legged King Cunningham could still beat all comers at a mile, had set two world's records only the year before. Then one fine night, out of the ruck came Chuck Fenske, a bespectacled 23-year-old, to hand Cunningham his first defeat in 21 mile races...
Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them...
...Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment it stands out from the ruck of service pictures by virtue of its material: as exciting as a periscope rising off starboard, as dramatic as the prayerful waiting of men trapped in a delicate mechanism at the bottom of a turbulent, exploding...
...ruck of possible candidates discussed by the London press, BBC's board of governors last week chose another Scot, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, to succeed Scot Reith. Dark-horse candidate for the $37,500 job, Professor Ogilvie is a celebrated economist. The board wanted a thoroughgoing educator, and the new 45-year-old D. G. fills the bill perfectly. He taught at Oxford and Edinburgh before becoming president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast...