Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former event, Varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer hit 22 feet to win, and George Kumpel got second. For the second straight Saturday, a chilly wind swirled down into the Stadium--so gusty at times that the high jump crossbars had to be held in place by officials until the jumpers left the ground. The H.A.A. is hoping for a better break this Saturday...
...Rain, wind, and even snow did their best, but the Crimson tennis team pounded out two resounding victories this weekend to boost its seasons record to four wins and two losses...
...Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...
...barns, the stable hands talked. They agreed that Coaltown, a hot Kentucky Derby prospect, could "run like an "ape with a striped behind."* There was also talk about the strange noises Coaltown used to make, like a furnace roaring, when he breezed or galloped. Some said he was wind-broken. Actually, the weird, snoring noises were a hangover from a throat ailment that once caused him to keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown...
...Race-trackese for swift as the wind...