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“The Murphy Marathon,” and in the 1920s endurance dances were regularly called marathons (the earliest such reference, surprisingly, comes from dour Scotland's Glasgow Herald in 1923).
Marathon provided the model after it was reintroduced into English from Greek with the First Olympic Games at Athens in 1896, according to the OED . The long-distance running event honored the warrior who in 490 B.C. ran to Athens in order to announce the Greek victory over the Persians on the plains of Marathon.
Yes, I finished the marathon, but I did it by putting on roller skates and grabbing the suspenders of those who knew what they were doing.
A day with McCain in New Hampshire is a marathon of candor without precedent in modern presidential politics.
The PCR-Select cDNA Subtraction and PCR-Select Differential Screening Kits (Clontech Laboratories Inc.) were used to enrich for and identify differentially expressed genes in the driver and tester cDNAs [ 48 49 ] . Both forward- and reverse-subtraction were performed; untreated HUVEC cDNA served as driver and VEGF-treated HUVEC cDNA served as tester in the former, whereas untreated HUVEC cDNA served as tester and VEGF-treated HUVEC cDNA served as driver in the latter [ 48 49 ] . Target cDNA fragments were amplified using the Marathon™ cDNA Amplification Kit, subcloned into pCR ®2.