Word: race
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese are a race of involuntarily short men with voluntarily short memories. Last week Tokyo newspapers published a warning issued by the Japanese Military at Tientsin: Unless Great Britain showed a more sincere attitude and stopped deliberately delaying the Tokyo parleys on Tientsin issues, the Japanese Army would soon pull some more high jinks to make Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's blood boil...
There are two breeds of U. S. racehorses: Thoroughbred and Standardbred. The Thoroughbred, developed in England, races under saddle and runs at a horse's natural gait, a gallop. The Standardbred, a U. S. product, races in harness and runs at a man-trained trot or pace.* For those U. S. citizens who remember the horse-&-buggy days, no sport takes them back so fast as a trotting race, no sport event is more endearing than the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 or more harness races held in the U. S. every summer...
...Unlike Thoroughbred races, a Standardbred race is three heats of a mile each (with intervals of 20 minutes between each heat...
...Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much that was great and of everything that was wrongheaded. Father and daughter argued without listening to each other. He said that once when he got hit on the head, after returning to New Orleans, he knew instantly he was in the South, like the shipwrecked sailor who knew...
Still the messages kept coming. One reported that 38 persons, one a woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...