Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circled over the procession, tried to direct traffic. On the downs squatted gypsies although they were not supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars. The Aga Khan who two months ago offered $100,000 for Trigo was, of course, present. King George, who has been sick, and Queen Mary were not there. But Edward of Wales sat in a box with...
...Epsom Derby is England's most famed though of course not always its most exciting race. The Derby excitement obtains not from the actual running of the race but from the world-wide lottery betting upon it. At the end of a Derby race it is generally discovered that some very obscure person has suddenly won a considerable fortune at very little risk. Such knowledge encourages people to bet on the following Derby. Thus Derby sweepstakes perennially increase in number and size...
What sunrise is like on the moon can now be demonstrated as well as described. Edward G. F. Arnott, student at Princeton's Graduate School, got his engineer-father to rig an ordinary amateur cinema camera at the small end of Princeton's 23-inch telescope. They slowed down the camera's action 100 times, since a lunar day passes 9/1000 as fast as an earthly one, and took a picture of how dawn comes to Copernicus, one of the moon's biggest pits. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular...
With the stroke situation steadily improving, the former weakness of the Harvard crew in failing to raise the stroke at the finish of the race may be overcome; and should the stroke be raised even to a beat at 35 or 36 at the end of the race, the long rythmic stroke of the Crimson eight may serve to avoid such a procession as featured the 1928 race...
...selection of Lawrence has raised high hopes among many of the Crimson followers since his previous record as stroke of the Junior Varsity crew indicates that at least he will be able to display the endurance necessary to handle the raise of heat at the end of the race. While not pulling as strong an oar as other oarsmen who have been previously tried out this season in the stroke seat, the favor of a narrow oar, such as was employed by John Watts '28 last year, may remedy the situation and allow him the reserve necessary for the final...