Word: races
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another varsity win came in the 440 yard freestyle, the longest race of the evening, when Kinney and Tolf of the Crimson outswam Sorenson and Damon of MIT in 5 minutes, 12 seconds...
...Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair to use them to symbolize all of humanity...
...squad is in much better shape than Ulen predicted two weeks ago. Bill Graham has strengthened the breast-stroke division and will swim the middle lap of the 300-yard medley relay. Dick Wheeler and Rone Vietman should go in the 200-yard race...
After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart...
...India has become politically independent, and there are great waves of unrest and portents of early struggles for independence in many parts of Africa. A missionary movement which is basically controlled by personnel from despised European powers (and belonging to the white race) is viewed with growing suspicion...