Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army's polo team took revenge on the Crimson riders for two beatings from Harvard last year by staging a fast rally in the fifth chukker to score four goals and salt the game away 10-8 Saturday at West Point...
...Army's polo team downed the Harvard Varsity 10-8 at West Point...
...Black Hawks, dual control will be novel, but a change of managers in midseason is nothing new. Owner Frederic McLaughlin, polo-playing millionaire coffee man, apparently has put great store in the old sport maxim, "Pan the players and can the coach." In 13 years he has canned ten managers-a record for major-league hockey. "He tried almost everyone except Irene Castle [his divorce-seeking wife]," one sportswriter commented...
...Freshman Polo team open its season next Saturday at Avon Old Farms School, while the Varsity faces off against the Jay Vees in the Common-wealth Armory...
Arriving in the Independency of San Bias,-the 200th country he has visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole...