Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field men is given a slight point advantage over Dartmouth for first place, there is not only a strong chance that the Indians may snatch the top honors, but also that either Harvard or Yale, whom the dopesters have relegated to a scramble for third, may sneak away with runner-up glory...
Yale, the defending champion; princeton, runner-up a year ago, and Harvard, which finished third in 1930, again dominate activities in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League as the association settles down to the major portion of its schedule this week. This trio, annually the Big Three of Eastern swimming, currently is tied for the top in the standing, each with two straight victories, and unless form goes completely awry they should continue their deadlock until they reach the series with each other early next month...
Capt. Jay Shields of Yale, who holds the 45-yard high hurdle record of 5-7 seconds, will face Donald Weadon of Cornell, runner-up last year; Dick Osborn of Yale, who was third; Captain Robin Hartmann of Dartmouth, who was fourth, and Richard Craw, Dartmouth's sensational Sophomore...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...
Last week the first Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) reports for 1940 showed a new king of radio. Jack Benny, a three-time front runner before Charlie came along, was in first place again. In his first month as a half-hour program, Charlie had lost over 1,000,000 listeners. In the same month Jack Benny's chuckly half-hour had picked up an estimated 3.000,000 listeners...