Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached a peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
...their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...
...days last week, Long Island Sound off Larchmont was as crowded as China's famed Han River at Hankow. Instead of jostling sampans, junks and tiny tugs the jostlers were Pirates, Buccaneers, Bulldogs, Snipes. It was the Larchmont Yacht Club's 40th annual Race Week, No. 1 outing for North Atlantic sailors south of Cape...
...Winner last week was Briggs Cunningham's Fun, which won the series by just one point from George Nichols' Goose. Both will this week compete in the tryouts for the No. 1 international event for six-metre boats: the Scandinavian Gold Cup race to be held off Oyster Bay next month...
...days before 1929, Race Week at Larchmont was the rendezvous for big-boat yachtsmen, and America's Cup sloops (with crews of 25 or more) mingled with the small fry. But the day of million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger...