Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last seven years. Instead, Grant gave up squash tennis to concentrate on racquets, which he had first played in England where he lived until ten years ago. Three years ago, when Grant was devoting most of his time to squash racquets, he found time to be runner-up to Philadelphia's Edward Mitchell Edwards in the 1934 national racquets tournaments...
Before the Berlin Medical Society, Professor Helmut Dennig asserted that doses of this common kitchen chemical increased physical capacity and endurance between 30% and 100%. A runner "was able to run at full tilt for 42 minutes instead of 20, as formerly. A bicycle racer maintained a sprint for 15.9 minutes, whereas 10.9 minutes had been his maximum...
Last year one runner suddenly yelled, "Haydock, my Foote hurts. Ring you fix it cause I can Harding run and I want to Pettingell later tonight. Woodland you'd do something about...
...feet further this year than ever before. He, too, broke Andover, Exeter, and Harvard Freshman records this winter. Witness his superior performance of 53 ft., 6 in. in the Exeter meet of January 13. Nat Heard, out of both meets with pneumonia, promises to be a close runner-up to Downing...
...time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...