Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaakko reserves his special praise for Bannister. "Why, that mile here between Bannister and George Wade of Yale will be one of the best of the whole intercollegiate season," he predicted yesterday. "Wade is the kind of a runner who needs to be pushed, and I think both of them will go under 4:10, so you can see what a race it should...
Bannister of Oxford should provide good competition for Yale's George Wade who set a new Harvard-Yale mile record this year running the distance in 4:15.6. The Britisher has been clocked at 4:16 and has run the mile in less than, 4:20 on eight occasions...
Both Emperor and people enjoy the new freedom. Hirohito chafes at remaining restrictions. At Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband...
...might be appropriate to mention here a few of Yale's recent times and distances that the Crimson can only gape at. In the Heps, Fuchs put the shot 55 feet, 3/4 inches, Wade ran the mile in 4:18.7, Appel pole vaulted 13 feet, 5 inches, and the mile relay team finished...
Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...