Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the race the crowd observed the custom of tramping afoot around the world's most dangerous steeplechase course. They swarmed past Becher's Brook-named for the Captain Becher who, spilled by his mount in the 1839 running, dived into the stream to escape being trampled by following horses-past Valentine's, past the deadly Canal Turn, where as many as 22 horses have failed in a single race, round to the water jump before the stands. Next day 36 horses started to make the same circuit twice. Only 13 succeeded...
Ootcher Y. Kootcher, self-styled "Hoist" reporter, looking for a scoop, was directed to the Mount Auburn Street obstruction for possible news. "There's nothing newsworthy there," he said gloomily. "I'll get in touch with the Obituary Department...
Casting about for something new with which to attack mouse sarcoma 180. Dr. Richard Lewisohn of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that...
Died. George Ellery Hale, 69, astronomer credited with founding University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, Palomar Mountain Observatories in California; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Foremost U. S. authority on the sun, Dr. Hale discovered magnetic fields in sun spots, for his discovery won the British Royal Society's Sir Godfrey Copley medal, of which the first award was to Scientist Benjamin Franklin...
Wellesley stole a march on the Lampooners when they got a free dinner in the Mount Auburn Street den; then they got their own dictionary introduced as the arbiter of the advertising-contract sponsored "clash...