Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapidan last week. He had already declined an invitation to speak at the American Legion's Detroit convention on the same platform with two men- Newton Diehl Baker and Theodore Roosevelt. The first might be his Democratic opponent in the 1932 presidential race, the second, his running mate. But as the week wore on the national atmosphere became increasingly charged with anxiety. What if the Legion should go on record for immediate payment of the Bonus in full? There were ample indications that it might do so, in the summaries of sentiment among State delegations...
...Twenty Grand, 3-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Cup, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., beating Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind...
...Cowes Regatta, three weeks ago. Second Mate Friend of King George's cutter Britannia was drowned (TIME...
...Danour, three-year-old horse who had never before won a race: the Saranac Handicap at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, so-called three-year-old champion, finished sixth...
...rain. The mature bird likes alfalfa, builds large nests. Every nine months its feathers are clipped, a process which the tame bird learns to relish. Wing feathers from a male are ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When not being clipped he is apt to roam about, find sport (not supposed escape from danger) in burrowing his head into sand and pebbles. Generations and generations...