Word: greyhounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make His Highness "doubly aware" of Britain's gratitude, he and two stalwart sons were received by King Edward, who dubbed the oily Sheik a Knight Commander of the British Empire. By way of amusement His Highness was taken to the greyhound races at White City. Scrutinizing the dogs, the Sheik said: "I have a system based on the shape of the dog, his shoulder action and muscular development." In each of the eight races of the evening Sheik Sir Hamad followed his "system" to bet upon one dog. Of his eight choices...
...most extensive busline business in the U. S. which last year earned net profits of over four and one half million dollars is the (1 Northland Transportation, 2 Transcontinental, 3 Santa Fe Trail, 4 Pan-American, 5 Greyhound Corporation...
Collaborating in the new bus rate schedules are the Short, Blue Ridge, Great Eastern, Safeway Trailways and Greyhound Lines. Their spokesman last week was serious, 44-year-old President Arthur M. Hill of Atlantic Greyhound, president also of the National Association of Motor Bus Operators. In the bus business since the War, he is known as the most traveled man in the industry, spends two out of every three days on the road. Said he last week: "The bus companies south of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi have had to meet this same sort of contingency before...
...motorcyclists will be listed as King's Home Service Messengers and are not to be confused with the King's Messengers attached to the Foreign Office. As his badge of office a King's Messenger carries a small silver medal engraved with. a running greyhound, which is supposedly potent enough to commandeer a British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where...
Alan Simpson 1G, erstwhile Oxford Greyhound player, secured the margin of victory for Harvard when he made a try before half time on a pass from Peter Knapp. There was no scoring in the second half...