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Word: cavan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Tim Tarn figured to take the Belmont in a walk. Last hope of the hunch players was a barrel-chested Irish colt named Cavan, who had come from nowhere to win the Peter Pan Handicap just the week before. And suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bright Career | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: When the Big Boy Goes ... | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

John Raymond Godley, 34, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, from Killegar House in Ireland's County Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Blonde & the Peers | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Miss Sarton presents Edward Cavan, professor of English at Harvard and a man dedicated to his friends, his teaching, and his ideals. But these ideals demand too much from Cavan and he demands the same from his friends. He is uncompromising, the kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: A Probing of Painful Wounds | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...life, from newspaper reports and the talk of friends. But when she must supply her own talent, when her characters must think and feel as well as speak, then Faithful are the Wounds descends to inescapable banality. Only Julia Phillips, a professor's wife and life-long friends of Cavan's, seems more than a type or a convenient point of view. Mrs. Phillip is a sensitive woman, more emotional than intellectual. Miss Sarton seems to understand a woman like Julia Phillips. She can round out her character with evidences of wisdom and warmth. But there are a host...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: A Probing of Painful Wounds | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

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