Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...patrolled the course, broke up fist fights among rivals who crashed into each other. Nineteen drivers suffered slight injuries. Two youngsters craftily painted the same number on two cars, with the intention of letting one take over from the other at the halfway mark. Their strategy miscarried when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl won. She was Amelia Aparicio...
...course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...
...position. The observation train (a revenue producer that helped to spur the shift to Marietta) broke down. The course had to be shortened to two miles. Finally the abbreviated races got under way two hours late. Washington won the first race for freshmen; its junior varsity won the second...
Over the last quarter-mile, without even seeming to raise its beat, smooth-stroking Washington pulled away easily from the field, won by 2% lengths. Seconds later, a cluster of shells swept across the finish line. While regatta officials reserved final decision, the judges crossed their fingers and called it an all-West finish: second, California, third, Stanford, whose crew is not officially recognized by its own university...
Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...