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Word: crossley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired Al Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars an enormous basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cycle Cycles | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Bobby Walthour Sr., Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cycle Cycles | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Crossley Poll (sample groups of voters polled by interview): Roosevelt 37 States, 406 electoral votes. Landon 10 States, 122 electoral votes (Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Guesses | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Both Gallup and Crossley polls, however, listed some 14 States as too close for accurate prediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Guesses | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Crossley poll: Roosevelt 36 states (408 electoral votes); Landon 11 states (115 electoral votes)-West Virginia, 8 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Polls | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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