Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photography, with 16 votes, is the most popular pastime among the 110 men who have answered, while yachting is runner-up with 12 adherents. The other most popular interests are chess, music, literature, stamps and butterfly hunting...
...another undefeated candidate from last year's Freshman team, while Bill Cavin, a junior, has a clean slate except for a defeat at the hands of Bull, the New England champion in the 145-pound class. Captain Stoddard, who holds the New England 135-pound championship and who was runner-up in the Eastern intercollegiate, seems to be the only contestant who may be fairly confident of victory...
...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
...Odets' previous work, and his audacity in bracketing himself with the late great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, reviewers settled in their seats at Paradise Lost ready for almost anything. When they rose after the final curtain, none could deny that plenty had happened. Ben Gordon, an Olympic runner, marries a wench who betrays him, gets shot in a holdup. His brother Julie takes three acts to die of sleeping sickness. His sister...
Individually a fast runner and possessed of a hard shot, Wood was held back in his Sophomore year by wildness. During the past season he overcame his fault, and developed a fast center cross to become one of the Crimson's scoring threats...