Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While to the Columbians the race was the season's windup, except for a trial jaunt at Poughkeepsie, the Harvard swingers were rounding into form for the four-mile grind against Yale. The Lions had nothing to lose and kept slugging away at a 36 count as against the Crimson's faultless...
Harvard took up the challenge by swinging up to 35 and holding the spacing in a power drive. From here on it was the Crimson's race to row as they pleased, and Chace lifted the beat to 38 before the winning shell went over the line. Columbia slammed across at 41, clocking in 7:55 to the victor...
...spite of a guesswork start disrupted by the tide, the Jayvees grabbed an early lead and gradually increased it through the race, rowing three and four points lower than the lions...
Veteran Producer David Wark Griffith's 23-year-old The Birth of a Nation is the most famous motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of several scenes that contained an "appeal to race prejudice." In Washington, during the Anti-Lynching Bill filibuster last winter (TIME, Jan. 24), it was picketed off a local screen...
...faced the possibility of three years in jail, a fine of $5,000. The complaint: violation of a State statute, passed in 1935 to curb Nazi activity, forbidding any representation that "incites, counsels, promotes, advocates or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship." The complainants: representatives of some 5,000 East Orange Negroes...