Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There should be an orgy of record-breaking tonight and tomorrow evening, according to the swimmers who tried the pool for the first time yesterday and found conditions especially fast. . . An international flavor is lent to this N. C. A. A. meet by the presence of F. Munroe Bourne, McGill...
†Other outstanding examples of Tory timidity: for 20 years the British Admiralty refused to sanction steam engines for men o'war, called them visionary, impractical. The eagle-beaked Duke of Wellington spoke bitterly against the International Exhibition of 1851 because it would "bring too many strangers into the...
In her will, probated last January, she left to the Metropolitan Museum a specific group of 142 paintings and works of art to be known as the H. O. Havemeyer Collection. She directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works...
Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh has the greatest number of forced jumps to his credit-four. Before his initiation into the Caterpillars, he had made eleven exhibition jumps. In 1925, during his Army Air Corps training, he collided in midair with a classmate's ship. His second forced jump came...
Manager Hoguet yesterday announced that the preliminaries of the diving have been scheduled for Friday afternoon, with the qualifiers giving a short exhibition on Friday night in preparation for the finals on Saturday. It is not yet known whether or not ticket holders for Friday night will be admitted to...