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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's indoor track team began its season on the right foot last night by demolishing an undermanned and out-classed Boston University squad 94-18 at Briggs Cage...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Thinclads Destroy B.U., 94-18; Crimson Wins 12 of 14 Events | 12/4/1975 | See Source »

...complex. Throughout the '50s and early '60s, the governments of South Asia armed themselves with the newly developed miracle weapon DDT, and waged all-out war on the mosquitoes that carry malaria, spraying ponds, swamps and other breeding areas, and even sending health teams into homes to track down the insects. For a while, the campaign to combat malaria was spectacularly successful. "If you just wrote DDT on the wall, mosquitoes used to die," says Dr. M.I.D. Sharma, commissioner of India's rural health services. The disease that once made vast stretches of the Himalayan foothills practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria on the March | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons' track experience dates back to eighth grade, "but I didn't get serious with year-round running and cross country until the winter of my sophomore year in high school...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fitzsimmons Takes Success in Stride | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

...what comes next for the dedicated and accomplished Fitzsimmons? Well, the indoor track team faces BU a week from today, and you can bet that Fitzsimmons, who has not broken training, will be running in the mile and two-mile events...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fitzsimmons Takes Success in Stride | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

Comparing indoor track to cross country, Pete feels "it's faster, [and] maybe because I have more endurance than speed, the faster stuff is a little harder." In a typical Fitzsimmons understatement, he adds, "I haven't decided whether I'm fast...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fitzsimmons Takes Success in Stride | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

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