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Word: lacquehay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello, Wambst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six Days | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...sprint perfectly. He was out in front now, pedaling like a maniac. Georgetti relieved him. Egg was at Georgetti's shoulder. McNamara relieved Georgetti. A pistol cracked-McNamara had won his third successive six-day race (2,109 miles). And the Beckman-Stockholm team was second. Wambst-Lacquehay, Walker-MoBeath, Grimm-Winter-third, fourth and fifth-tumbled into their pits, having done their furious best for 146 hours to win some of the prize money so that some day perhaps they would be able to afford-a carriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six Days | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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