Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned house set in an old-fashioned garden, half way up a verdant incline called Boar's Hill on the outskirts of the ancient university town of Oxford, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges* celebrated the 83rd anniversary of his birth. He passed the day quietly receiving many callers, from hoary...
...year-old gelding, Sergeant Murphy (by General Symons, out of Rose Craft, English bred) won the Grand National, the steeplechase classic of the world, over the Aintree Course, near Liverpool, the most hazardous four miles known to the racing turf. It was the first time (and this was the 83rd Grand National) that an American horse has won. Out of 28 starters only seven horses finished. Sergeant Murphy went to the pole at odds of 100 to 6 against and finished three lengths beyond the field...