Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME...
...thief. The procedure has almost become a ritual. The Negro customarily surveys the store about closing hour (7:30 p. m.) to see that Grocer Feldman is alone, then immediately enters with his pistol. Usually nothing is said. Grocer Feldman smiles wanly and calmly gives his money to the black man. The first time he got $87. His succeeding visits netted him $49, $57, $54, $30. This year, Grocer Feldman was unable to take his family away for a holiday...
...present", said Professor Black yesterday, "each country collects its own statistics according to its own ideas, which makes it very difficult for a student of foreign problems to put them together and reach any true conclusions. Our job is to make them readily available...
...makes very little difference. It is never necessary to establish a complete case in order to set up a symbol. To Princeton, Harvard became the archtype or token of snobbery and superciliousness. And out of this idea came great benefits to young men who were the orange and the black...