Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International polo dates from 1886, when a team from Hurlingham, England, visited the U. S. The Challenge Cup, then donated by The Westchester Polo Association, remained at Hurlingham, safe from U. S. attacks in 1900 and 1902. In 1909, Harry Payne Whitney organized a "Big Four," bore off the Cup to Meadow Brook. The U. S. defended ably in 1911 and 1913. In 1914 the English recaptured, to lose again in 1921, the most recent series. Two out of three matches are played...
...take up the standard which he bore...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...down to a fortnight of final conditioning. The swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames (TIME, June...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...