Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as well-bred children are entered in exclusive boys' & girls' schools before they are born, so colts and fillies are entered in the Futurity at Belmont Park, N. Y. before they are foaled. The entries are renewed if the horse shows promise, thus piling up the world's richest purse-last week $108,450. Out of 2,026 original entries for this year, only eleven horses finally started. Climax of Long Island's smart racing season, this year's Futurity was run on a soft track before 20,000 people. Odds on favorite...
...Twenty Grand, Mrs. Payne Whitney's famed 4-year-old racehorse: the Irish Lad Purse at Belmont Park, N. Y., his first race since being retired last September with a minor injury...
...something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution. But at last simple hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that the prisoner is discharged. The Night of June 13, written by Vera Caspary. is bitter against meddling women and tender toward badgered men. Good shots: the kaleidoscope of Glenwood Park after Mrs. Curry's suicide, showing each household finishing a statement begun...
...Tall drivers of motor cars take more time to park than do short drivers. Women require more than twice as long to park their cars as do men (a sex difference). Safest drivers are men around 60.?Dr. Alvahh R. Lauer, Iowa State College...
...sexual activity. But monkeys at large relieve their emotion by running away or by other physical activity. This suggests that in monkeys, and probably in humans, sex is not the primal urge which Freudians make it out to be.?Dr. Otto Leif Tinklepaugh, Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station, Orange Park...