Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this would have dismayed any other runner-up than the feverish St. Louis Browns. They kept right on winning-seven out of nine, against the Tigers' eight out of nine-and were just one game back as the American League pennant battle went into its final week...
Leading the team from the tailback spot will be Ed Navin, flashy runner and pass-heaver. In the Saturday scrimmage, Navin accounted for the afternoon's only score almost single-handedly. He passed his squad down to the 15 yard stripe and drove it overland from there to the one on two plays, after which Bill Jenkins took it across...
Company F officers, submitting 19 photographs as entries in the contest leads all other companies. Company H, entering 13 candidates, is runner-up among the competitors. Company representatives helping conduct the contest include Ensigns Alden Wells, Jack-Condon, David G. Hall, George K. Trimpe Paul Deibels, and James Cunningham...
...other over all kinds of terrain, against all kinds of odds, avoiding anyone else, attacking anyone, Jap or American, who tries to stop them. On a test through heavy jungle one dog covered 1,600 yds. in four-and-a-half minutes. It took a Marine runner eleven minutes to cover the same ground. If necessary a dog can carry 150 rounds of ammunition in a saddle pack...
Although the honors are evenly divided so far, Andersson is the season's standout. Before this year he was a Hagg-ridden runner, could never win against Gunder the Wonder. Arne's finishing kick was better but Gunder's quick start and speed put him always just out of reach...