Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard high jump record holder Dick Barwise will have trouble with Yale's jumping Hipples, George and John, with the former the probable winner. The Crimson mile relayers have taken two out of three races from the Blue this season, and have turned in better times. But the high-hope-stretching snaps at about this point. The rest of the wins should go to the Yalies...
...true whether the administration is honest or not, but grubby politics have aggravated the problem. When the depression drove prices down to absurdly low levels, assessments followed. When prices rose again, the valuation of residential buildings stayed where it was. Even then, abatements came easily if a property-holder knew the right people. The fee for this graft was high, but well worth it. The Politicians used to overassess business property in order to lower the tax rate, and then grant wholesale abatements. The voters are impressed with the low rate, but the city cannot meet its expenses. The debt...
Great Circle. While he had done well in numerous Western races and set a new track record in winning the Del Mar Derby last year, Great Circle had not fulfilled his promise in recent tries. This time his jockey was Willie Shoemaker, co-holder of top 1950 riding honors. Willie rode the big brown colt at Santa Anita last month and learned a useful lesson: Great Circle can run in the clear, but when he is close in with the field he is apt to fall back. For the Maturity, Shoemaker put the lesson to work...
...Bonanza. Sir Ernest's biggest interest now is not diamonds, but gold, from which Anglo American last year made ?11 million ($30.8 million) profit. His Anglo American is the biggest single holder in the immensely rich new fields of the Orange Free State, and has put up more than half of the ?200 million ($560 million) being spent to develop them. Believing that South Africa must wipe out the disgrace of its mining "kraals," where Bantu workers live like prisoners, he has led the spending of ?70 million by mine operators to develop a model village to house...
...Degree holder in the following fields: Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry, Sanitary Engineering, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, and Public Health...