Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Race. To be as sure as they could of smooth water on the seven-mile oval course in Lake St. Clair, Mich., the committee named an unprecedented hour -6:30 a. m.-for the start. Rain that began before dawn caused a half-hour postponement. Thousands of boats had gathered in the dark, were anchored around the course. Along Grosse Point's Lake Shore Drive waited 200,000 spectators. At 6:55 a. m. when the five-minute gun sounded an inshore breeze was kicking up whitecaps-hard as riffles of concrete to a boat traveling more than...
...last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...
...call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists" to "The American Artists Professional League...
...Oval Joseph Urban exhibited a large wood carving of a madonna & child...
...after setting five new records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line in the record time of 4 hr. 48 min. 3.79 sec., driven by Fred Frame, built by Harry Hartz and Harry A. Miller. Driver Frame...