Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Tuesday Mikkola put his team through a brisk six mile workout along the riverbank and on Wednesday followed up with speed work in the cinders. On paper, tomorrow's race should be fairly close, with the edge going to the engineers on the strength of their depth through the middle with Poorman, Goldie, and Ray. Running number two, three, and four for M. I. T., these men form the backbone of a well-balanced team...
...England two mile champ Duncan Blanchard, a well-balanced Jumbo harrier team defeated the Crimson, 23 to 33, Saturday, over the local 3.7 mile riverbank course. Jumping off to an early lead, Blanchard outdistanced his field and coasted home in the winning time of 18:49.2 for a new collegiate handicap course record...
Speed workouts combined with long riverbank jaunts are the order this week as Jaako Mikkola whips his 1944 Crimson cross country team into shape for the important dual meets with Tufts and M.I.T. on September 30 and October...
Last week again there were dark passions at the bridge. Two 14-year-old Negro boys stopped a 13-year-old white girl who was crossing the trestle on her way home from school. The boys took her to the riverbank underneath, attempted to rape her. Deputies arrested the boys, took them to the county jail at Quitman...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...