Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tired out by the longest hockey game on record (2 hr. 44 min.3 1 to 0 against the Boston Bruins) the Toronto Maple Leafs knew they had one chance in the first game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, against the New York Rangers. That was to make enough goals in the first period to win. The Rangers guessed that if they could pile up a lead in the first period, Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison...
...first official House crew race is scheduled for Tuesday, May 2, When the Houses will compete for the Agassiz Cup. The crews will then be reorganized to include only men of satisfactory scholastic standing, in preparation for rowing against Yale. The winner of a race to be held Tuesday, May 9 will meet the best Yale class crew on Saturday, May 20. For the men who remain on the House crews after the Yale race, a medal event will be included in the ensuing Spring Regatta...
...sporting proposition. Others had ascended to the stratosphere, descended to the bathysphere, flown all the oceans. The Houston-Mt. Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January he was the provisional leader. When Commodore Fellowes took command, Lord Clydesdale became Squadron Leader. He and Commodore Fellowes took turns at the reconnoissance work...
First important U. S. steeplechase of the season, the Carolina Cup which Trouble Maker won last year, was run last week at Camden. S. C. A crowd of 15,000 saw Pink Tipped, 8-year-old chestnut mare owned by Richard K. Mellon of Pittsburgh, ridden under top-weight of 162 Ib. by William Street who had never seen his mount till the morning of the race, take the last hurdle perfectly, outrun Hotspur II in the last 20 yd. to win in record time...
...issue which reached the U. S. last week displayed a telephoto of the California earthquake, shots of the Cambridge crew, the running of the United Hunts' Challenge Cup, fashion, disaster and cinema pictures, and a fine photograph of Private Cruddas of the ist Green Howards belting Private Alexandra of the ist Oxon & Bucks in a boxing match. The magazine is published weekly in London, costs sixpence...