Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when motoring was a major U. S. sport, its No. 1 event was the Vanderbilt Cup race-ten laps over 28 miles of Long Island's tortuous dirt roads. Last week at Westbury, L. I., the Vanderbilt Cup race was revived, with a new prize, a new course and 45 bright little racers that smelled like castor oil and sounded like machine guns...
First prize in last week's race in addition to a cup donated by young George Vanderbilt, whose Cousin William K. put up the first one, was $20,000. The course was 75 times around the brand new pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway (TIME, Sept. 28). To watch the race, lured by publicity which stressed the possibility that it might produce several fatalities, went a crowd of 50,000, including a list of boxholders, at $27.50 per person, which read like a carefully abridged social register...
...m.p.h. average - he waved to the judges and slowed down. While France's Jean Wimille in a Bugatti passed Count Brivio, whose motor had overheated on the last ten miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track to get Cup, first prize, and an extra $3,000 in lap money. Then he jogged slowly back to the pits, put on a coat, drove away in a medium-priced U. S. sedan...
...daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris. To visualize those interfering grains Dr. Barkan applies a cup-shaped magnifying lens to the glaucomatous eye. With his own eyesight thus fortified Dr. Barkan pierces the canal of Schlemm with a needle-like knife at the precise point where it is clogged. Out pop the iridic grains and a flood of intraocular fluid...
Birth of this magnum opus, which will name, with all the care usually assigned to picking All American football teams, and Davis Cup tennis, a "carefully sifted list" of several hundred students, whom the compilers firmly believe to be in at least the upper brackets...