Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen in 1:58¼, once more failing to break the 1:56¾ world record set in 1922 at Lexington by famed Peter Manning. Now retired at Hanover Shoe Farms for sentimental reasons, 21-year-old Peter Manning is a gelding...
According to standard histories the first occasion on which American colonists made monkeys out of His Majesty's troops was at the Battle of Lexington. According to Neil H. Swanson, assistant managing editor of the Baltimore Sun who offers...
...First Rebel to support his claim, that distinction really belongs to a band of Pennsylvania frontiersmen known as the Black Boys who, ten years before Lexington, captured two British forts, destroyed licensed pack trains carrying guns to the Indians, thumbed their noses while British generals and Royal Governor John Penn fumed and threatened or merely whimpered helplessly that "they use the Troops upon every occasion with such indignity & abuse that Flesh and Blood cannot bear it." Leader of these slippery, hard-hitting rebels (who insisted, however, they were as loyal subjects as any), was a man named James Smith. Central...
...close: the U. S. Navy's great search for Amelia Earhart Putnam and Navigator Fred Noonan, lost in mid-Pacific while flying round the world "for fun" (TIME, July 12, 19). While its commanders gritted their teeth and hoped fervently for no mishaps, 60 of the aircraft carrier Lexington'?, complement of 62 planes took the air near the point where the International Date Line crosses the Equator. Later the searching force was cut to 42 planes. One day the Lexingtons 1,500 sailors roasted under a fierce sun and the aviators smeared their faces with protective grease; another...
...square miles. The Itasca, which inaugurated the search last fortnight, continued its futile patrol until fuel ran short. The minesweeper Swan put ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear...