Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attending his first baseball game, towering, cadaverous Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, saw the White Sox beat the Tigers, in Chicago, asked, "Do they throw the ball to hit the runner?"; asked of a hot dog, "What's inside it?"; posed poking at Sox Owner Charles Albert Comiskey II's baseball with a fountain...
...Gailani's answer to the British was to send a concentration of Iraqi troops to the heights threatening Habbania airport, with an ultimatum to the British to cease all operations there. British Ambassador Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, a six-foot-four, big-boned, two-fisted runner, boxer and marksman who has had 35 years' experience in the Near East, replied that the continued presence of the Iraqi concentration at Habbania "might lead to an unfortunate incident...
Outsailing all but one of its 17 college opponents, the dinghy tars of the Crimson chalked up 109 points to take runner-up honors behind Princeton in the races for the Morss Cup in the Intercollegiate Dinghy Racing Championship on the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
Ranking the squad would be difficult, but Coach Dick Dorson '37 has finally selected six players who have a slight advantage over the others. Ted Cohn, runner-up in last fall's Freshman tournament, is a very steady player. His closest rival, Dick Soriein, is a fast, aggressive player. Tall, six feet four inch Hugh Hyde has the height and reach for a good net man and is one of the best doubles men on the team. Former hockey star Marc Becbe has the most powerful serve of the group, Phil Scanlon wields a clever racquet all over the court...
These fine, clean-living young athletes are rather to be compared with the noble Greek runner, Pheidippides, who in 490 B.C. ran the 134 miles from Athens to Sparta in 48 hours to seek Spartan help against the Persians. Thomas E. Bowman...