Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind a door marked "Private" bustled J. P. Benkard himself in a blue denim smock; and out on the runners' bench "Gunboat" Smith, onetime prizefighter, now Mr. Benkard's head runner, simpered in a blue denim smock...
Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
...Union tennis tournament this fall, all squash entrants will be divided into two groups, chosen according to their ability by Coach Harry Cowles. The tournament will be over by Christmas, and prizes will be awarded the winner and runner-up in both classes...
...Luttman '28 was the fifth runner to arrive, making the last low score for Harvard. Though his running throughout the season has been excellent, he has generally ceded second place to E. C. Haggerty '27. Yesterday, however, he exceeded all expectations, and won over the nearest Crimson competitor by 27 places...
...ninth arrival was a Penn State man, Glenn, but lack of support from his team made a good record for Penn impossible. Bates also was represented by one good runner, Wills, but fell short in supplying four more low scorers...