Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...base of a monument recording the names of 192 Athenians who died in the battle of Marathon...
Fred Martin started out as a hand-organ grinder in a San Francisco roller-skating rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...
...line from New York's long-running Life with Father which brought down the house on election night: "Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" ^ Edward Devlin, 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman, made a 66-hour marathon speech for President Roosevelt in Tuscaloosa...
When the nine-hour marathon was completed, 952 Freshmen had worked their way through Memorial Hall along with 52 transfer students, 38 of whom will be classed as Provisional Sophomores and 14 as Provisional Juniors...
...want the inside dope on how all those documents get in your registration envelopes, and what happens to them after you fill them out, you'll have to look in a thirty-page "Report on Harvard College Registration" prepared by Leonard R. Hooper, Jr., who bossed the annual penmanship marathon last year and who is now teaching at Williams...