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...Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, oldtime race driver who manages the Speedway, says it is smoothing out from yearly traffic. The Automobile Club of Michigan last week called for a change: "Three deaths this year are ample proof. . . . These drivers were fully qualified. Their cars were checked as fit for the grind at high speed. . . . The races should be stopped or the track should be subjected to scientific engineering reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indianapolis Derby | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) - Will Overhead won the Indianapolis Memorial Day race today. At the 250 mile post Babe Stapp was leading the string of roaring cars, but gave way to Overhead on the last half of the 500 mile grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Winner | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...survey or rapid review of the elements of French it is unexcelled. It may be taken by students who wish to brush up on the language for one course credit. Although the daily classes are necessarily tedious, the personality of the instructor does a great deal to relieve the grind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...ridden over four times around the world in six-day bike races," declared Reggie McNamara, the "grand old man" of the sport who entered his ninety-fifth grind last night at the Garden, in an interview yesterday afternoon, "and it's gotten so that I feel better in a race than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara, Veteran Six-Day Bike Racer, Has Ridden Over 100,000 Miles in Grinds--Daily Diet Includes Steaks, Chops | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...York, I broke three ribs on the fourth day, continued, and won. Another time I won with a broken collar bone that I smashed on the first night. But I took my prettiest spill right here in Boston. I was trying out the Arena track before a grind when I fractured my skull, broke my nose, cracked my collar bone, cut my face badly, and busted my jaw in three places. I didn't enter that race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara, Veteran Six-Day Bike Racer, Has Ridden Over 100,000 Miles in Grinds--Daily Diet Includes Steaks, Chops | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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