Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only other identified Crimson runner was S. M. Charley '37. Charley favored the peculiar gangling style of running used by Clarence DeMar but not with quite such good results. For, while the 49-year-old veteran finished a strong 14th, Charley was still unheard from at a late hour last night. He was last seen trying to negotiate a hummock near Newton Lower Falls...
...radio audience: that the world has watched with wonder for three days this city wherein a newly dead woman has thrice come from her tomb. Emerging for the fourth time the woman speaks, warns the assembled crowd that "the city of masterless men will take a master." Soon a runner comes through the crowd with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what to do, the Conqueror is among them, "broad...
...Every runner in Bay Street knows the story of the fun-loving Toronto broker who bought 20,000 shares of Continental Kirland at one-eighth of a cent per share to send to his friends as Christmas cards in big denomination certificates. After he had mailed every last certificate, the stock suddenly bounced to 80? per share, a 640-fold appreciation...
...Runner Glenn Cunningham: the Columbian Mile, feature race of the Knights of Columbus Track Meet, for the fifth consecutive year; in Manhattan. Last major race of the board-track season, the Columbian Mile is often the most remarkable. In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors). In 1936, when all the entrants were too cautious to set the pace, he won in the ridiculously slow time of 4:46.8. Last week, the race upheld its tradition. Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five...
...ultimate secret to perfect performance in athletics." Cox stated, "is the relaxation of muscles not used. All the top-notch runners, you will notice, are perfectly relaxed through the shoulders when running. Good form is essential to the runner. And there are times in the continued use of a limb when certain muscles in that limb should be relaxed: the muscles of the lower leg for instance need be contracted only half the time. Fellows that don't relax muscles not in use tie up easily...