Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another industry which requires the horse is the military; a major feature of the week was the tests for army animals. The first evening Major R. S. Timmis, Canada, rode Bucephalus (name of the war horse of Alexander the Great) to win an international cup, made in London for George III, latterly presented by Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Minister. Poland possessed itself of the important International Military Trophy in jumping contest against U. S., Canada, France...
...President Coolidge presented to Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell of Detroit a cup she had won with her speedboat, Miss Syndicate, in a Potomac regatta...
...imitation to the artist's inevitable urge for expression. Also, they struggled with relentless poverty, walking to London to see Mr. Knight's first picture exhibited. Laura Knight sold her first picture (Mother and Child) to Edward Staff, A. R. A. Two years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative. Stubbornly refusing to paint pictures solely that they might sell, ana thereby condemn the creators to continue painting in the same mood, they went to Cornwall. On this stormy, cloudswept coast...
...four years prior to last year, the lightweight eights of the three universities met in annual races for the Prince Cup. Last spring, the Prince Cup was won by the University eight in a race at the American Henley at Philadelphia, in which Columbia, Yale, and Princeton were entered...
Last month a discontented Italian remained in Venice. His discontent arose from engine trouble which forced him out of the recent Schneider Cup races won by English Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster at 281 miles an hour. Discontented Major Mario di Bernardi tinkered with his engine. Last week he summoned a committee of the International Aeronautic Federation; flew. When he descended watches recorded he had traveled faster than man and his machines have ever traveled. Speed: 301.185 miles per hour...