Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Theodore, who gave the bride away, got much more attention than the bridegroom. Year in and out, life among the Roosevelts is much the same. Last week, on the 33rd anniversary of his wedding. Franklin Roosevelt had outstripped almost everyone else in the world in the endless race for public attention, but his own family was still very much in the running...
...that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered civilization," "the ideal and practice of human freedom," "our responsibilities to the future of our race...
Perhaps the most outstanding of these newcomers to the Varsity is James Lightbody, winner of the B. A. A. Hallahan Trophy. Only once since he has been to Harvard has he been beaten in a race; last July he was second to Godfrey Brown of Cambridge in the Oxford-Cambridge Meet. In the Quadrangular Meet a month ago he easily defeated Foster of Dartmouth and Nevius of Cornell in the 600 later to run anchor on the mile relay. Some expect him to go unbeaten the rest of his college career. Jaako hopes he will break 48 seconds...
...Harvard-Yale crew race, scheduled for June 24, will again be rowed upstream this Spring, starting at the drawbridge and ending at Bartlett's Cove. It will start at 6 o'clock, an hour earlier than usual, while in case of postponement will be rowed downstream the following morning. The Freshman and Jayvee races will be downstream...
Harvard, which last year was undefeated at the sprint distances except for Navy, losing then by a third of a length, and which defeated Yale on the Thames River at New London in a record-breaking upstream race, has great prospects again this year...