Word: hill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line, McCabe has Art Rohn and Al Sawyer, right ends; Stan Miller and Peter Hill, tackles; Hansen and John Harding, guards; Hob Balzer and Dave Waring, centers; Lew Gordon and Carl Bazer, left guards; Bob Shaw and Bob Thompson, left tackles; Alex Serglenko, George Emmons, Pete Leavitt, left ends...
...first HMC-sponsored climb was probably to the granite quarries in Quincy, whose smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...
...scrabbly hill country of central Pennsylvania, where coal runs rich to the surface, a man could almost breathe the trouble in the air. Across five counties the peace was broken by Americans fighting Americans...
...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...
...them went to the post for the big race. Hill Prince had not been nominated for the Futurity; by the rules of the race all hopefuls had to be nominated back in 1947 before they were born. Curtice had been nominated originally (along with 1,703 others), but his owners let interim payments lapse. Middleground, who was eligible, was simply being saved for next year...