Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene of most U. S. accidents in 1936, as for many years past, was the home. Slipping in bathtubs, electric shocks, scaldings, poisonings, burns and cuts from kitchen utensils killed 38,500 people. Close runner-up to home was the highway. Traffic accidents caused 37,800 deaths. Most dangerous State to live in was Arizona. Best accident record was that of children from 5 to 14. The hurry of better business last year caused 18,000 workmen to lose their lives. In 1935, occupational deaths totaled...
...champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner-up in the Open after posting a score apparently good enough to win, were fighting with Thomson for the lead...
...July 10 the invaders will have one of their strongest teams on hand. Featured on it are A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, a ranking Olympic runner up to 880 yards. Also there are E. B. Tisdale, of Oxford, an outstanding miller, F. R. Webster, a 13-foot pole vaulter, and Ali Irfan, a 49-foot shot putter...
...totally blind, tripped on receptacle to win third place. Tiny Betty Grunstra, 12, of Clifton, N. J. and the Passaic Herald News, fell down on plebeian. "Best speller" was chunky, 14-year-old Waneeta Beckley of Louisville's Holy Name School and the Courier-Journal, who corrected Runner-up Grunstra and then spelled promiscuous for good measure...
...first term he vetoed 221 bills. This made him runner-up to Grover Cleveland who imposed 312 vetoes in his first term, 163 vetoes in his second...