Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Susan B. Anthony, the celebrated suffragist (1820-1906), is the front runner, but Amelia Earhart is closing fast, well ahead of Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Fanny Farmer, Grandma Moses, Martha Mitchell, Sara Lee, Anita Bryant, Shirley Temple and Whistler's Mother. All are candidates in a campaign to put a woman's face on a dollar coin that the Government plans to issue, probably in mid-1979. Since word became known of the plan, the Treasury has been receiving 700 to 800 nominations...
Horner said five official t-shirt runner-ups in the Radcliffe Centennial competition will be sold in September...
...University of Massachusetts emerged as the tournament champions, edging out runner-up Yale with a dramatic 5-4 overtime victory. Other teams finishing ahead of Harvard were, in order, the University of New Hampshire (UNH), Brown and Middlebury...
Yale's number-one man, Peter Teravainen, won the individual title for the second year running, with rounds of 76 and 74. The premier collegiate golfer in New England intends to turn pro in the fall. Dartmouth's Joe Henley was the runner-up with a brace of 77s, and Holy Cross's Dave Castellani was third with...
Rejuvenated Crimson runner Pete Fitzsimmons ran to a first place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase event as the Harvard team tied for fifth place in Saturday's Heptagonals, held at West Point. Cornell won the meet, upsetting second-place Penn, which has won the meet for seven consecutive years, by a score...