Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stewards of the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association canceled the amateur license of Crawford Burton, Manhattan stockbroker, steeplechaser, and one of the few men in the world to ride two winners in the Maryland Hunt Cup. Reason: He allowed his photograph in racing silks to appear in a spectacular testimonial advertisement for Camel cigarets. Victim of many a serious fall. Jockey Burton has not ridden a steeplechase since...
First prize is $50,000 and a $2,500 gold cup; second prize, $7,500; third, $2,500. Donor of the prize money is Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candy tycoon. His sole stipulation was that the speed race must be completed within 16 days. British bookmakers found plenty of money to wager the race would be won in 86 hours. Record for the run was 6 days 17 hr. 56 min., made last year by Charles J. P. ("Unlucky...
Awarded the Mussolini Cup for the best picture at the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice (TIME, Sept. 24), Man of Aran was exhibited to U. S. audiences for the first time last week. Critics were quick to appreciate its superb pictorial qualities, the honest artistry with which Director Flaherty photographed his characters as heroic dwarfs against the dark, enormous background of a hungry land and a mighty sea. Audiences were equally quick to feel that somehow, in the absence of dramatic line, Man of Aran missed the essence of its subject...
Some of the season's 22 calibre matches will be held in the basement of Memorial Hall where a range was constructed last year by the Military Science Department. As coach the team hopes to have Sergeant Easterling, Marine Corps champion and winner of the President's Cup, who coached them last year. Beside the 22 calibre matches in Memorial Hall there will be weekly 80 Springfield shoots...
Unhappily there will be no elimination contests this year, the ratings in the League depend wholly on percentages. This is the same basis for the games played in the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League, formed only last January sixth. Manager Jim Sampson of the Crimson soccermen donated a cup to be awarded the winner, and Harvard certainly deserves to come out on top of the other 9 colleges in this local league...