Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have us believe that it must have rained Lux during a track meet to christen Harvard's old runner "Soapy" Walters, that it takes a warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...
...Colgate and Richard Lawrence last week prepared to try for the two-man championship of North America. Dressed in bright blue uniforms, wearing goggles and blue leather helmets, neither bothered to examine the steering apparatus of the sled. They already knew that the most important bolt holding the front runner under control was missing, but they had decided to risk going down without...
...Square Garden. The track, twenty-seven feet wide, is divided into two sections. The outer section is 160 meters around and has four lanes; the inner one is 133.33 meters with five lanes. All the distance races will be started on the inner track, and after a lap the runners will be shunted onto the outer track. Between the two tracks there is a broad white line. If a runner on the outside track steps on the line he is automatically disqualified. The curves on the track are banked sharply very much like a railroad track. A man running...
...quarterfinal will be argued on Friday, with the Edward-Warren Club as plaintiff, and the Pitney Club as defendant. The semi-final matches will be held during the spring, and the winner is determined next year. The club winning the final argument receives a prize of $300, while the runner-up gets $200. The Competition is the only chance for students in the Law School to debate...
...gaining the greatest number of points in a series of matches among the 30 clubs in the Law School. The penultimate arguments are held during the spring, and the survivors meet in the final round next year. The winning club will receive a prize of $300 and the runner-up will...