Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the War Eleonora Sears discovered the pleasures of walking. She hiked from Boston to Providence. R. I. five times. Her best time over this 47-mile route was 9 hr. 53 min. In June 1934 she did it in 10 hr. 25 min. When asked whether she had been trying for a record, she replied: "It would be ridiculous to try for a speed record at this time of year, when it is so warm and muggy. I was just walking for the exercise." From Newport to Boston (73 mi.) her best time was 17 hours...
...offices and they wanted to stop those who would penalize overthrow of our government by force. ... If that's going to be the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, I'm going to do what Al Smith said he'd do - I'll take a walk...
There's been a most delightful strike in New York lately, as you may have been reading. All the elevator men walked out, and the apartment-dwellers and office-users had to walk up and down, even is some cases unto the sixtieth story...
...meet named Irving Folwartshny set a new world record of 58 ft. 1½ in. To track addicts this was of small importance. Equally unexcited were they over the broad jump in which the winner fell almost 18 in. short of the record, the 1,500-metre walk in which it was so difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose prodigious love for bananas is supposed to account for his strength, out-shotputted Champion...
...village of Sapakunu on the Paloemeu River (not on the map) suffering with yaws. . . . He told me that there was a white man on the Paloemeu River in the village of Piaiman, that he, Kapan, had seen him and that he was crippled, so that he could not walk, that he had come out of the sky, and he had seen his machine which was wrecked on a savanna and not on a mountain...