Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malcolm Campbell, veteran auto-&-boat speedster, had a new ambition at 61. He proposed to raise the water speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) which he set with the Bluebird II in 1939. On an English lake next fall he will use the Bluebird's old hull with a brand-new jet engine...
...mirror-like Lake Virginia, Angler McDermand spotted a huge golden trout which seemed to be the only fish in the lake. He dropped a fly right before its nose; there was a streak of speed; McDermand's line broke, and the big one got away. He is anxious to try again, but willing to have competition. Directions: get there no earlier than August 1, when the snows melt, no later than mid-September, when winter closes...
Clearly the underdog, Tom Bolles' varsity crew will take to the water tomorrow in an attempt to salvage something from a spotty season by turning in a good showing at the University of Washington's invitation regatta on Lake Washington...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in a hardboiled, pate-cracking thriller by Raymond Chandler (TIME...
When he died (of tuberculosis) at Saranac Lake, N.Y., in August 1944, he was to U.S. eyes the First Filipino in more senses than one. Among his countrymen he had critics who deplored his dictatorial ways, but to thousands of other Filipinos he ranked with the great patriots. The Good Fight is Quezon's autobiography. Earnest, mild in its verdicts, limited in range but now & then surprisingly revealing, it is his profession of faith in the U.S., his story of how a boy from the out-of-the-way Luzon barrio of Baler, Tayabas Province, rose in the world...