Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely known last night who would start in the place of Black Wood, but several men are liable to get the position. The rest of the lineup is about as usual, with Avon scheduled to be on the mount...
...letter signed George Washington, dated Mount Vernon, June 21, 1785. Writing of the forwardness of U. S. pioneers in invading the Mississippi against the King of Spain's order closing the river to U. S. navigation, Washington declared: "The emigrations to the waters thereof are astonishingly great; and chiefly of that description of people who are not very susceptible to law and order and good government. It will be difficult to restrain people of this class from enjoying natural advantages...
...offspring of the most respected modern theory and the most searching observation, were slapped down before members of the National Academy of Sciences (enrolment: 300) assembled in Washington last week. The figures were fairly safe ground for the man who presented them, Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, famed astronomer of Mount Wilson Observatory. Dr. Hubble's universe is a finite Einstein universe, in which there are only 10³º (one billion billion trillion) cubic centimetres of space for each gram of matter...
...with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used by all to prevent serious head injuries in falls...
Washington's design of Mount Vernon will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by Morley J. Williams, acting chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture. Delivered in Robinson Hall Annex at 8.15 o'clock this evening, the speech is the public portion of the annual meeting of the Georgian Society of America, which includes a number of Harvard graduates and graduate students. Mr. Williams will advance a new theory as to the factors influencing Washington in his estate's design...