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Word: graved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for Display and Man O' War, all these horses are no further removed than Whirlaway. To say that Whirlaway is the only notable name in Forego's pedigree is to do grave injustice to Mrs. Gerry's achievement in breeding him. Moreover, having Whirlaway in a pedigree is at best a dubious asset, since he was a failure at stud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Sports Editor | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

After the autopsy, the body was claimed by Hughes' relatives, including his only surviving aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis Sr., 85, and eight cousins. At an eight-minute Episcopal ceremony attended only by them and their families-about 20 people in all-Hughes was laid in a grave beside his mother and father in Houston's Glenwood Cemetery. "We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out," said the priest. "Remember thy servant Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...brilliant young American-born singers team up with a superior set of instrumentalists in a glowing recital of vocal music. The mood shifts in a varied repertory that encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

Gyring Sopwiths. A vital part of the Lawrence cult was the purity of his war. After the Somme, a new kind of battleground had been given to England: an open mass grave under a leaking sky, inhabited by shell-shocked troglodytes. The filth, stasis, boredom and despair that were the overmastering realities of trench warfare between 1914 and 1918 destroyed the chivalric picture of conflict. That picture survived in only two arenas. One was the sky, where the Royal Flying Corps, the "knights of the air" in their gyring Sopwiths, preserved the image of man-to-man conflict. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Legend | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...Quakers, leaders in the EIBL with a 4-0 mark, did not have to break out their big bats in building up the lopsided early bulge. Crimson pitcher Jamie Werly dug his own grave with a slew of walks and wild pitches sandwiched around a few Pennsylvania hits, as Harvard dropped its first league game of the season...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: Penn Nails Harvard Nine With Early-Inning Attack | 4/10/1976 | See Source »

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