Word: gar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Great Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record of 301.13 m.p.h., raced his Bluebird over Lake Maggiore, twice smashed Gar Wood's five-year-old speedboat record to set a new world's record of 129.41 m.p.h...
After talking to the discoverers, Diver Brown said, "In my opinion it's nothing more than a large fish-maybe a catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom...
...John are by no means the whole Sopwith Navy. Still in England are his old motor yacht Vita and his new motor yacht Philante, which will cross the Atlantic in June and on which Owner Sopwith will live this summer, using a 28-ft. runabout now being built by Gar Wood as a tender. Philante is "the most luxurious motor yacht afloat." She is 263 ft., 1.612 tons, has a crew of 50, cost $1,250,000. The interior, designed by Mrs. Sopwith, contains a tiled swimming pool, gymnasium, eight guest staterooms and a hospital. When he goes...
...their ten opponents this season only a few will be from other colleges because of the fact that besides Harvard, only Yale and Princeton have teams here in the cast. Pennsylvania used to have a team; and Gar Davidson started one for his football players at West Point. But these have gone and only the Big Three remain...
...Norman Thomas, wife of the Socialist, and Mrs. Francis Patrick Gar- van, wife of the Chemical Foundation's philanthropic lawyer-president, both breed fine cockers on Long Island, both had entries in last week's Westminster. But the best of the show's 205 cockers, jet-black Champion Torohill Smoky, belonged to Mrs. Garvan's 15-year-old son Peter, a Millbrook School fourth-former who has devoted his vacations for three years to feeding, grooming and exercising...