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Page 152
... seemed to me to bear out a theory which I had held for a long time , that once a man is lapped he should drop out of a race . One truly great British performance was in the 800 metres when Derek Johnson , another athlete who often seemed ...
... seemed to me to bear out a theory which I had held for a long time , that once a man is lapped he should drop out of a race . One truly great British performance was in the 800 metres when Derek Johnson , another athlete who often seemed ...
Page 183
... seemed strange at that time in the morning and we decided to investigate . We pushed through swing doors and found our- selves in one of the most bizarre settings I have ever come across . Despite the early hour we were in a bar which ...
... seemed strange at that time in the morning and we decided to investigate . We pushed through swing doors and found our- selves in one of the most bizarre settings I have ever come across . Despite the early hour we were in a bar which ...
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... seemed quite incredible – and twelve years later it still does – that Liston , a supposedly fit man who had trained for months and weighed nearly fifteen and a half stone , could be taken out with one punch after little more than a ...
... seemed quite incredible – and twelve years later it still does – that Liston , a supposedly fit man who had trained for months and weighed nearly fifteen and a half stone , could be taken out with one punch after little more than a ...
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Sometimes it was the Street of Misadventure until 1935 | 17 |
Mirror Mirror on the Ball 19357 | 31 |
The End of the Beginning 193840 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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