Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Becher's Brook, sixth and most famed of the 30 prodigious jumps that make the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree the hardest race in the world, the field began to dwindle last week. Youtell went down first, then Society and one of the favorites, Heartbreak Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until...
...three lengths ahead of Really True who, owned by Major Noel Furlong and ridden by his son, beat out Slater by a neck for second place. First across the line, a length ahead of Kellsboro Jack, was a riderless horse named Apostasy. Apostasy's and Heartbreak Hill's jockeys crossed the finish together last of all, both riding Dusty Foot whom they had caught in open country. In the largest finishing field on record (18 out of 34 starters) Forbra, last year's winner, was sixth; Trouble Maker, the only U. S.-bred horse in the race...
Married. Maud, daughter of Louis Warren Hill, granddaughter of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Jim") Hill; and Laurence Holmes Dorcy, literary grandson of Jim Hill's good friend, Pony Express Boss Ben Holladay; in Del Monte, Calif...
...late mighty Railroader Edward Henry Harriman was no tuppenny personage. At the age of 16, he began his career as a bank clerk. The star of the Harrimans being in the ascendant, at 35 he became a vice president of the Merchants National. Meanwhile his uncle had tussled with Hill and his Cousin Anne had married William K. Vanderbilt. Young Joe became a person of at least social consequence. He married Augusta Barney of Jersey City Heights and like his cousins William Averell and Edward Roland Harriman set out to carve himself a career...
...Wagner's Works," Professor Hill, Music Building...