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Word: chestnuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dauber's victory was worth $51,875 and brought his 1938 winnings to $69,175. second only to those,of Stagehand. Owner Du Pont already had a neat profit on the chestnut colt he bought from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Pimlico | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...them past Becher's Brook Then another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 11-Year-Old Stallion | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Lupien who lives in Adams House, is from Chelmsford: Harding from Winthrop House and Chestnut Hill, while Blake lives in Senior House and Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERMEN ELECT THREE LEADERS OF TEAMS FOR 1938-9 | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...racing days (1919-20), Man o' War, a golden chestnut colt familiarly known as "Big Red," won all but one of the 21 races he started, established five U. S. track records and was said to be the greatest horse in the history of U. S. racing when he was retired to the stud of his owner, Samuel 13. Riddle, in 1921. In the 14 years since his first foals became of racing age (1924), Big Red's progeny have won more money than the sons & daughters of any other sire† now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Big Red Dynasty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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