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Word: runners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Correspondent Ted Alford wrote that "an experienced observer" for the Democrats had just returned from a trip on which he found 95% of the Party's following "reconciled to a fourth-term nomination." There was nothing left for Democrats to do but start slugging it out for runner-up. That would be the only remaining fun after the 1944 convention drafts Franklin D. Roosevelt again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Throttlebottom . . . | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Phillips, tiny distance runner who was the main Brown and Blue threat, entered the Army last week, and there are virtually no individual aces left on the Medford team's roster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIKKOLAMEN FAVORED OVER TUFTS AT STADIUM | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House last night announced candidates for President and Vice-President for the summer semester. As in the past, all active members of Brooks House Committee will vote by mail, the candidate receiving the most votes becoming President, and the runner-up Vice-President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Nominates Four for Offices | 4/14/1943 | See Source »

...must wear helmets and leggings at all times. In the heat of battle, a messenger ran up to a lieutenant at an observation post just forward of a position General Patton had-taken. The lieutenant, looking very pleased and perhaps expecting a compliment, asked: "What is the message?" The runner said: "The General said for you to put your leggings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fight Against the Champ | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the title for the glory of Boston's skating swells. Miss Goos, a newcomer to senior ranks, was trying to accomplish something no figure skater had ever done: win the novice, junior and senior titles in three successive years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Queenie & Co. | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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