Word: evently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailing list of the English athletes also includes E. A. Hunter of Oxford, and L. E. Neame, J. N. Mason, A. N. Other, and Dr. R. S. Woods of Cambridge, but no event in the meet has been specified for any of these...
Cragadour remains the favorite in the Derby. Always in England the Derby vies in importance with any political event. This year the election was almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...
...Belgium, voting is compulsory. That is why, in a nation of 7,744,000 people, some 2,500,000 votes were cast last week in a little-noticed general Belgian election.* The event drew small attention because there was very little at stake. M. Henri Jaspar is still prime minister. In the central legislature, the greatest gain in seats was made by the Liberal party, which had encouraged closer relations with France and opposed the liquor laws forbidding the drinking of hard liquor in public. To win voters from Antwerp and Brussels, notorious amateurs of fine Burgundy, the Liberals promised...
Winnipeg last week conducted an aviation meet and aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
...suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...