Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jack Lovelock of Oxford and Bill Bonthron of Princeton ran a mile race at Princeton a year ago, Lovelock set a world's record and won by seven strides. When they met again for the same distance at Shepherd's Bush, England, in a Cornell & Princeton v. Oxford & Cambridge meet last week, there seemed scant justification for the British belief that Lovelock would repeat his victory. An operation on his knee last winter, which doctors feared might end his track career, had apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had not come within...
...Bush Leaguers defeated the Prickly Heats 4-3, while the Nine Muses downed the Baby Dolls...
...When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, a marathon race was included in the program. Most famed of modern races was that from Windsor Castle to Shepherd's Bush in the 1908 Olympics. The distance of the London run, some 4 mi. longer than the original, has been made standard...
...fiercely; when he was dangerously ill she made a vow to God that if his life were spared she would read the Bible from cover to cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush. Her uncle reported to her parents, and when she overheard them making light of her simple-mindedness she left the last few pages forever unread. Selma's governess broke the news to her gently that she was an unremarkable child, but Selma's hopes of some day becoming...
Last year Irving Ter Bush, founder of Brooklyn's big Bush Terminal Co., regained control of his corporation after a long, confused, mysterious proxy battle (TIME, March 23, 1933). Few weeks later Bush Terminal subsided into receivership. Last fortnight the receivers asked Mr. Bush to resign as head of the various subsidiaries (which are not in receivership). Mr. Bush angrily refused. Last week the receivers, voting the stock in the subsidiaries, unceremoniously ousted Mr. Bush, put in their own managements. Irving Ter Bush retained the dubious title of president & chairman of the parent company, whose affairs are dictated...