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Sir Roger (Gilbert), 1929–2018, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
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bannister retired from running soon afterward to become a neurologist.
John Landy, Australian runner and one of the world’s top milers, dies at 91 | Dennis Passa | February 26, 2022 | Washington Postbannister, whatever time this young person comes back, see that she is not sent away, and ask her in to the little morning room.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteWhat'll people think to see a man of my age hanging over a bannister yelling 'Bootsey'!
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York | Lemuel Ely QuiggI confessed that to the sewing circle, and Mrs. Deacon bannister ain't seemed the same toward me since, but I don't care.
Family Pride | Mary J. HolmesHe was Pharisaically thankful that he was not as that conglomerate group in the bannister box.
The Trumpeter Swan | Temple Bailey
"The precise rate of speed and the exact instant of calculation, Captain Jackson," bannister said.
What Need of Man? | Harold Calin
British Dictionary definitions for Bannister
/ (ˈbænɪstə) /
Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
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