Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yacht racing for the America's Cup is divided into three stages: 1) negotiation; 2) construction; 3) sailing. Last week in Manhattan, preliminaries to next summer's races started to proceed from Stage One to Stage Two when Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who helped underwrite and skippered the successful Cup defender in 1934, announced that, instead of heading a syndicate to finance the 1937 defender, he would build one all by himself. The new boat will cost some $400,000. She will be the first individually owned defender in 50 years. Because her designer, W. Starling Burgess, works...
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...your comments on the Vanderbilt Cup motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
During the year the National Museum acquired 296,468 new items. Among these were the trophy awarded in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race 30 years ago, presented by William K. Vanderbilt; the sailplane Falcon, presented by the widow of Sportsman Warren Edwin Eaton (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); a Maybach dirigible engine; a Mergenthaler linotype; a model of the locomotive De Witt Clinton and train; 108 new textiles; 136 coins; 1,314 stamps. Dancer Sally Rand did not send in her fans, as she has promised to do eventually. Nor was the Wright Brothers' plane forthcoming from London, whither Orville...
...consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle, is less objectionable than in most public gatherings. In a university where a realistic attitude is taken toward athletics and athletes, the cup that warms should be tolerated "pour le sport...