Word: cindered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruby, scheduled to run the second leg tonight, provides perhaps the strongest wallop. Ruby, Wheeler and Thayer, by the way, all got their cinder schooling in Milton. Ruby was a star sprinter and quarter miler for the High School in 1944-45, the same year Thayer was cleaning up across town at the Academy. Wheeler set an Academy quarter mile record a couple of years earlier...
...projected field has been recently resurfaced with a cinder and gravel coating, and would be able to handle a maximum of 1250 cars, far more than any conceivable demand. Only disadvantage would be its distance from the Houses, which would be at least a quarter of a mile...
...remained for Harvard, however, to strike the last blow in the pre-war battle between the Crimson and the Green, when a 1941 pre-game rally burned to a cinder an effigy on an Indian...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...materialized in plump perfection from a Helen Hokinson cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon a vast, vandalistic hole gaped in the wall...