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Word: race (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Fast Rowing of Cornell Navy Brings Crew Major Opposition | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

Another super-marathoner, 50-year-old Clarence DeMar, felt the same way last week. Seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon, DeMar, who finished 30th last week, had a "Situations Wanted" ad in a Boston newspaper the day of the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave Victory | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

From the first, Stevens saw that the Civil War would be a long war, ridiculed the statesmen who thought the South would be exhausted in six months, urged that it be "laid waste," "depopulated," "planted with a new race of freemen." He saw that slavery was the basic economic and military weapon of the South, might be similarly exploited by the North, insistently urged the freeing of the slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thaddeus | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...wavering, traded and intrigued. Failure to impeach Johnson was a severe blow to the aging, implacable Stevens. Shortly afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator." (By all the evidence, Thad Stevens was an atheist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thaddeus | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Saturday's game goes down into the record books to stick, and the pennant race of the Eastern Intercollegiate League has now been thrown into a wideopen scramble, but this 1939 version of Harvard baseball is just about the classiest to wear the Crimson spangles in a long time. They are still lodged in first place in the latest League standings, a half game ahead of the defending champion Dartmouth Indians and two and a half ahead of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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