Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added that the winner and the runner-up in each of yesterday's heats is qualified to race in the finals next Friday...
...midst of another rough bout with infantile paralysis, the worst since 1916. By last week there were 5,622 cases, some 1,600 more than at the same date in 1944 (the previous runner-up to 1916). Hardest hit: the South and Middle West. Minnesota had an epidemic (965 cases), and the disease was severe in Texas, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri...
...stars blamed their indifferent play on rarefied air (altitude at Mexico City: 7,325 ft.). But part of their trouble was not altitude, but attitude. Recently Monterrey, tied with Vera Cruz in the 14th inning, had a man on second. On a safe hit to left, the base-runner held up at third. Ex-Dodger Olmo, dozing in the field, thought the winning run had already crossed the plate. To show his disgust he fielded the ball, then turned and threw it-and the ball game-out of the park...
...softball circuit, Lowell meets Adams today to determine which club shall inhabit the cellar, each team now boasting a won and lost record of 1 and 4. Leverett has already clinched the pennant, and Dunster seems headed for the runner-up position...
...runner-up was the pre-primary favorite, earnest Dr. Homer Price Rainey, ousted president of the University of Texas.* After a discreet radio campaign that degenerated into fang and claw stumping, 50-year-old Baptist Dr. Rainey had clapped a Stetson on his bald head and begun calling names in the best southwestern tradition. He had done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have...