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Word: jamaica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome chestnut two-year-old bounded out of the starting gate at Jamaica race track in the first race of his young life. His name was Air Lift, and he carried the brown & white colors of Texas' famous King Ranch. Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Son of Bold Venture | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...when Damon Runyon wrote his last stories, they had become as predictably stylized as a Balinese dance. His Broadway heroes, for example, were called Sam the Gonoph, Harry the Horse or Gigolo Georgie; they could calculate the death of a pal as coldly as the third race at Jamaica-but in Runyon's last-paragraph twists and hooks they always proved to have hearts of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hired Rebel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Included are such classics as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara, three Charles Laughton pictures (The Beachcomber, Jamaica Inn, Sidewalks of London), and the successful Dark Journey, South Riding, A Star Is Born and The Young in Heart. WPIX will begin televising the series next month, and will syndicate the pictures to stations outside the New York area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Imported A's | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Robert Winsor of 73 Main Street, Framingham, Mass.; Williston Academy Easthampton, Mass, Storey, James Moor-field of 229 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Groton School, Groton, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Storer of 93 Pine Street, Portland, Me.; Deering High, Portland. McMurtrie, Richard Lempereur of Bellevue Place, Gorham, N. H.; Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mello, Robert Charles of 32-43 32nd Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; Phillips Exter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Nebel, Harry Thomas of 129 Jamaica Avenue, West View, Pa.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

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