Word: cy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia has two racing halfbacks named Homer Key, who weighs only 145 Ib., and Cy Grant, who is high-scorer for the season in the Southeastern Conference. Last week both men slithered and sprinted through Florida, Grant making two touchdowns which boosted his average to better than one per game...
Cleveland's announced reason for transferring the races: the discovery that ten-day meets in one spot in successive years were more than the public would support. A possible solution offered in the February Aero Digest by Associate Editor Cyril Cassidy ("Cy") Caldwell: Let each year's races be operated like a road show, playing three or four days in, say, New York about Decoration Day; another few days in Philadelphia around July 4; thence to Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, ending in Cleveland on Labor...
...Gates's performers was Clyde Pangborn who flew around the world last year and got into trouble with Japanese authorities for taking photographs over forbidden area. Said "Cy" Caldwell, associate editor of Aero Digest: ". . . If Ivan had been on the job, Clyde not only could have taken the pictures but Ivan would have charged the Mikado $10 for looking at them and sold him a snapshot of himself and a bag of peanuts for $1 more...
Cyrus Hall McCormick II & III, respectively uncle and cousin of the groom. While Alexander (Farm Board) Legge rules International Harvester Co. the uncle presides respectably as Board Chairman. The cousin-popular "Cy" to thousands of employes-had just published an able book, Century of the Reaper...
...other affair was caused by the curiosity of Pilot Cy Bittner, flying west from Albany to Buffalo with an empty mail-ship on the Colonial Western route. He deviated from his route to circle twice over Auburn prison on a clear night last week. Below him, 'tremendous excitement . prevailed. The whole town, citizens, State Police, prison guards, still tense from a frightful, abortive prison rebellion last year (TIME, Aug. 5), believed that some powerful gang was attempting to drop firearms within the prison yard to incite another riot. Machine guns and rifles were turned on the plane...