Word: 93rd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aintree. The biggest steeplechaser in the year's biggest steeplechase-the 93rd Grand National last week at Aintree, England - was a Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur...
From Washington last week Vice President Charles Curtis crossed the Alleghenies to Huntington, W. Va., to deliver the 93rd commencement address of Marshall College, to receive an honorary LL.D. Although not a college graduate, the Vice President is no novice at accepting degrees (LL.D.'s, Washburn College, Baker University and Kansas State Teachers' College; all in Kansas). Nevertheless at Marshall he seemed to fumble his manuscript, looked nervously at the audience which packed the ornate cinema theatre where the ceremony was held. Confused, he turned and, momentarily mistaking the faculty on the platform behind him for the graduating class, began...