Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squibb and Page got off to a good start in the runoff after ten other boats had been eliminated and used their great weight to good advantage in sailing close to the wind on the long beat up to the finish line. The runners-up, a poor fourth at the start, gained steadily running before the wind...
...blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...
Having gone through a grueling Presidential campaign last fall, Los Angeles had little wind left for its municipal primary last month, still less for its runoff election last week in which Mayor Frank Lawrence Shaw was returned to office for four more years with a majority of 25,000 votes over his opponent, County Supervisor John Anson Ford...
Flying from his post at the University of Alaska, Scientist Otto William Geist put up at a little roadhouse two miles down the highway from where the glacier's runoff water joins the Delta. "The roadhouse shook perceptibly and we could hear the distant moaning glacier . . . for all the world like a gigantic dredge." Nearer to, the groaning, booming and thundering was even more awesome. "The glacier is bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could...
Freshmen continued to show a wealth of strength, but in the 1000 and 600-yard races runoff today, they were decisively routed, their greatest power being shown in the shot put and pole vault, which were the remaining two events on today's calendar...