Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reports (Europe, Asia, Latin America, the U.S.) made lively reading for two reasons: 1) Gunther was driven by an insatiable hunger for facts and impressions; 2) his style was as breezy as a tabloid newspaper's, as terse as a telegram. A hardly avoidable consequence of this hop-skip-and-fly journalism was that Reporter Gunther frequently fell into glibness and superficiality. When he might have been mulling over the information he had just collected, he was already on the run to collect more...
...Saturday, turning in a time of 20 minutes and 13 seconds--11 seconds over the upstream record. The Yale varsity, which has already been at Gale's Ferry for over a week, made its preliminary run on Thursday and was clocked at 20 minutes and 40 seconds by Coach Skip Walz...
Victor Reuther decided to skip a special union conference in downtown Detroit and spend a quiet evening at home. The kids were sent up to bed as usual after dinner. A couple of friends dropped in to chat a while. After they left, Vic Reuther, a top policy strategist in the mighty C.I.O. United Auto Workers, picked up a morning paper and sat down in a straight-backed wooden chair to read. His wife Sophie lounged comfortably on a sofa a few feet away...
When Eva Mae Bradbury started school near the little Kansas wheat town of Ada (pop. 150), she happened to be the only one in her class. She sat in with the second and third grades and wished that she might soon skip a grade, or that a new family, with another child her age, would move into the neighborhood. She kept on wishing...
Dick Weiskopf should win both the 100 and the 220 for the Yardlings. Ace Yale hurdler Skip Hill will give Charlie Durakis, Jim McLaughlin, and Bill Gelck plenty of competition. Frank Efinger, who took third in 4:19 behind Gil Dodds in the BAA mile last year, is slated to put a dont in the Crimson's near perfect middle distance and mile record although Dave Cairns, Ron Berman, Dave Gregory and company will give the Yale star a run for his money...