Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of each day riding in a good-natured cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
...H.A.A. medal will be awarded to the winner of each event in the three competitions...
Competitors will be limited to two events and were advised to sign up with Brooks in order to enter. Medals will be awarded to the winner of each race...
Although the Darcey Memorial Cup is saved for the results of spring singles rowing, Fradd announced that rewards will not be lacking for summer competitions since the H.A.A. will award a medal to the winner in each department...
...nabbed wasn't pretty: the Ahoskie Kiwanis Club had raffled off a $3,200 Cadillac at a dance for the local poor, and the winning ticket went to a Negro. The dismayed Kiwanians sent a three-man committee (including the sheriff, a Kiwanian) out to the winner's one-horse farm to tell him. that he couldn't have the car. The committee was generous about it. It gave 25-year-old Harvey Jones, an ex-G.L, his dollar back. Then the Kiwanians held another drawing, and this time the winner was a well...