Word: chestnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole situation was a hot professional chestnut for Dr. Connell to handle. An eye-ear-nose-&-throat specialist, he found that he could often dissolve cataracts by injecting them with a filtrate of a liquid produced by certain germs bred on cataracts extracted from blind persons. That nitrate contained enzymes similar to. although not related to, pepsin, which in the stomach dissolves every meal...
Died. William Goodrich Thompson, 70, indefatigable defense counsel for executed Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti, whose cause he adopted in 1924 (three years after their conviction) and carried valiantly until final defeat in 1927; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...Doubles. Chestnut Hill last week was the scene of no fewer than five simultaneous U. S. doubles championships- men's, women's, mixed, veterans' and father & son. The father & son tournament was distinguished by the performance of the Davis Cup's donor, 56-year-old Dwight Davis who, with 27-year-old Dwight Davis Jr., beat R. N. Watt & Son of Montreal, holders of the title for the last two years, in the second round. William J. Clothier, U. S. singles champion in 1906, and William J. Clothier Jr., a Harvard sophomore, were the new titleholders...
...bookmakers, many of whom had arrived the night before on the "Cavanagh Special" (named for famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running...