Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shelby H. Page of New York City and Holworthy Hall, business manager; David E. Place of Greenbush and Grays Hall, advertising manager; Jere Mead of Belmont and Matthews Hall, editorial chairman; Henry W. Munroe of New York City and Matthews Hall, literary editor; Roger Lyford of Westport, Connecticut and Matthews Hall, art editor; and Paul Southwick of Baltimore and Wigglesworth Hall, photographic editor...
...last year: the 38th running of the Manhattan Handicap; outstripping seven of the best handicap horses in the U. S. and setting a new North American record (2 min., 28 2/5 sec.) for a mile and a half; in his debut on the Big Apple (New York tracks); at Belmont Park. Former record: 2:28 3/5 set by Handy Mandy at Latonia in 1927 and equaled by famed War Admiral at Belmont...
Other teaching appointments are Robert A. Triffin, of Flobecq, Belgium, Instructor in Economics; Gordon A. Harrison, Oxford '37, Instructor in English; Claude M. Simpson Jr., Cambridge, Instructor in English; Russell J. Lutz, Belmont, Instructor in Forestry and Assistant to the Director of the Harvard Forest...
...history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander Healy produced a famous likeness of Mrs. August Belmont. While John Singer Sargent had a whack at several bigwigs of a later day, and contemporary painters filled in the gaps...
Last fortnight, after three more sensational victories (in the Belmont, the Withers and the Dwyer Stakes), and two record-breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...