Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goshen, N.Y., long the mecca of harness horsemen, the Hambletonian had its 21st renewal. Winner: a bay colt named Chestertown, bought the week before the race by Walter E. Smith, a rags-to-riches West Coast industrialist turned harness-racing promoter. Driver: grizzled, 72-year-old Tom Berry, who had broken two ribs and his wrist in a spill two days earlier...
...Mecca of Drunks...
...soccer union and thus gets $20 a week and a $16 bonus for each game the team wins. His father was a shipyard worker in Casablanca, and he learned to play soccer bare foot on a Moroccan desert. A Mohammedan, he frequently bows his head to ward Mecca after scoring a goal...
Startling vistas of fundamental changes in process open at the reading of the new Provost's policy toward admissions, pronounced in a recent Alumni Bulletin. Old College men were dismayed to learn that they had been weighed and found wanting Verily, the Provost charges, Harvard has become a Mecca for "precocious, intellectually over-stimulated" boys, while their socially superior classmates "head for Yale or Princeton". In mute anticipation the reviled "brain" stands by to watch this policy carried out, now that the Provost may select fastidiously from the hordes of new applicants for his better balance in the student body...
Part-Time Job. In spite of the strings attached, Emir Abdullah might feel that a lifetime of loyalty to Britain had at last been rewarded. As a young delegate to the Ottoman Parliament, he had urged his father Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, to team with the British in an Arab revolt against Ottoman overlordship. In World War I (in return for a promise of Arab independence) Abdullah fought against the Turks, side by side with Colonel Lawrence...