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Left behind on a bluegrass slope were 3,000 to 5,000 spectators who hoped to catch a glimpse of the chase in the ravine beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxhunters | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cultural Event | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...prize scholars, one from Iowa and the other from the bluegrass of Kentucky, will arrive in Cambridge next September with the Class of 1939, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIZE SCHOLARS TO GAIN TWO NEW RECRUITS IN FALL | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...heart of Kentucky's bluegrass lands, 30 mi. west of Paris and 10 mi. north of Versailles, is Spring Station. Fifteen people live there. It is 600 mi. to the nearest track of the Southern Pacific R. R. The Louisville & Nashville railroad runs through Spring Station but no trains stop except on flag. Last week a train did stop and out of a private car stepped 15 directors and employes of the Southern Pacific Co. They marched into a one-room brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar railroad system held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Huddle in a Hamlet | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

When an organization called the Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation bought 15,000 acres of bluegrass land in Tennessee for its members to hunt and race over, it was announced that this was the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since William the Conqueror set aside New Forest (TIME, Jan. 29). Prime mover of the Grasslands project was Joseph Brown ("Joe") Thomas, 51, a hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grasslands Downs | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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