Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College dailies have a way of waxing introspective now & then about their college and questioning its physical expansion. Especially has Mother Yale, into whose broad lap have lately dropped many millions for masonry, been asked by the Yale Daily News whither she was listing. Last week at the News's annual banquet given by a new board of editors for the retiring board, Yale's President James Rowland Angell had sly fun asking the News who started Yale's building boom, anyway. He recalled, he said, that the Yale Record (funny fortnightly) had treated itself...
...Twenty Grand was last year's Kentucky Derby winner and three-year-old champioit. His winnings for two seasons were $259,925. He was one of the few horses in the U. S. who was thought to have a chance of beating Australia's late great Phar Lap. This spring there were reports that Twenty Grand was ailing. Last week this was verified. A middle tendon in his foreleg which he ruptured in training last autumn had grown weaker instead of stronger. Mrs Whitney's stable manager said Twenty Grand would be retired to the Whitney farm...
Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root...
...Serge Koussevitzky came out on Boston's Symphony Hall stage last week at precisely the same moment that Leopold Stokowski appeared on the Philadelphia Academy of Music stage. Koussevitzky's entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first to start...
...Phar Lap was buried last week in the horse cemetery of the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif...