Word: runner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game losing streak as obvious as a ten-month pregnancy, Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team gets another chaned at the Arena tonight when it goes against EIL runner-up Columbia at 9:30 p.m. Gordon Ridings' small but quick Lions gouged the Crimson 86 49 earlier this winter in New York...
...most interesting match of the day should be the heavyweight duel, which pits Houston against Benny Davis, a tackle on the Army football team. However, Army's top wrestler is probably Ralph Raabe, eastern intercollegiate champ three years ago at 121, runner-up the following year, and number two man at 128 last season...
Tall, rangy Hugh Foster is runner-up to his brother on this year's squad, and is a junior, although younger than Henry. Number five man last winter, Hugh is a hard smasher and quick rusher...
Looking them over, bustling little James Parton got an idea. Parton, onetime Harvard cross-country runner ('34) and wartime lieutenant colonel, had been a TIME staffer since 1935, was then Los Angeles bureau chief. He figured that combining the most successful giveaways would be one way to establish a profitable citywide newspaper with ready-made readership and advertising revenue...
Mikkola predicted that the loss of Hamblett may add three seconds to the relay time, but he added that Brown is a good runner who can be an ace when "he puts his mind to it." Other men in the relay are Al Ruby, Pat McCormick, and Harvey Thayer...