Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grows any more, and after the boost you give the picture there is certain to be a lot of talk about it. There surely are many Spanish-speaking natives of these southern countries right there at Rockefeller Center who would gladly inform you it is not pronounced "Wha-race," but "Whar-s"-first syllable strongly aspirated, followed by only the faintest sound of s through front teeth...
...game (6-to-1) against the-tip-top New York Yankees: handing the World Champion Yankees their first defeat in 13 games, ending the longest winning streak of the season; at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx. By week's end, the Cincinnati Reds, leaders in the National League pennant race, had also spun a string of twelve victories in a row, were finally defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals...
...blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When Nazi theoreticians sound off about the German folk-soul, they mean to refer to this somewhat vague balance of blood, soil, race...
...found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good books. Hitler himself is the best seller (Mem Kampf with a total sale of over 4,000,000 copies is still tops...
...Three-Mile Race...