Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Equipoise was supposed to be retired to stud after his race last month at Havre de Grace, Sportsman Whitney welcomed the challenge. He stipulated, however, that Winooka should first prove himself "against one or more of our first-class Eastern horses . . in order to show the public his real quality." Manager Naylor was incensed at what he took as a "direct insult to Australian racing." but agreed to enter Winooka at Laurel last week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths...
...headline GET LIFE IN URSCHEL KIDNAPPING the sedate, careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President...
...enormous critical study and biography"). Other books: Three Men Discuss Relativity, Aspects of Science, But for the Grace of God (TIME, Sept...
...France and Great Britain must not relinquish their stand against secret diplomacy, which is the most heady of all stimulants to war. But European economics make war at the present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler's reentry to international grace there is small choice. Stress the instrument to make that reenter possible; if France and Great Britain reject it, they must do so at a risk which, in the long run, would be unwise to take. POLLUX...
Through an original investment of $5,100,000 Dillon, Read thus controlled $90,000,000 of capital. The little wheels ran by the grace of God, but the big wheels ran for Dillon, Read. Since the two preferred stocks had only a fixed claim against assets ($100 a share), the liquidating value of International's common went up much faster than the securities International owned and so did Foreign...