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Word: runners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning. Most took it for a portrait statue, and the remnant were vacant-minded in the absence of a personal guide. None felt what would have been a nursery instinct to a Hindu baby or a Japanese jinricksha-runner. . . . Like all great artists, Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Mirrors | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...average (20.9 points a game) is now 1-10th of a point under that of Iowa's Murray Wier, who has completed the season. Tonight is Lavelli's last chance to move into the runner-up slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . As Nine Teams Test Yale | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Freshmen captured four championships and one runner-up slot to dominate the University. The Yardlings took 23 points to the upperclassmen's 26 and the Grad School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Boxers Win Four; Tommy Rodgers Keep Title | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

...Puritans had clinched first place even before the start of last night's bouts by qualifying eight men in the finals during matches earlier this week. Adams notched the runner-up spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Pugilists Fight Their Way To House Crown | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

People's Choice. As far as the Garden crowd was concerned, the best dog lost in the semifinals. He was Ch. Red Coat of Tercor, best of breed in the Irish setters and runner-up to the springer in the "sporting group." Red Coat was handled by Harold Correll, who the same day was named the best handler of 1947. Correll runs his own kennels, sells his dogs and his training services to the best-bred bidders ("I look them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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