Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grinning baby grew up and became known as the Lampoon. But each Spring the CRIMSON still takes it across the river. Although the ground has grown too and thee is no more swamp, it always manages to rain for the game. So the grinning Lampon editors still get rolled in the mud. After awhile it began to hurt when their hair was pulled,, so now they all have crew cuts. But the score is still...
...Derby winner was the first horse he had ever started in the race. Last week's Derby victory was the second for a son of Man o' War: Clyde Van Dusen's in 1929 was the first. It was also the second for Jockey Kurtsinger, who grew up in Louisville, got spanked regularly by his father for spending his time at the race track. Before the race, Kurtsinger was asked whether he wanted to have Man o' War's old saddle on War Admiral. Said he: "That saddle must be nearly 20* years...
...bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with its paws stretched forward dog fashion, refused to frolic with its litter mates...
Denver, Colo. has had notorious trouble with Indians, dueling, prostitution and the 16-1 ratio of silver and gold. More lasting than any of these has been Denver's trouble with transport. Founded in 1858, this roaring frontier town presently grew into one of the West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile...
...studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport the company back to San Francisco. The note was paid out of profits from the original...