Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the picture-postcard setting that makes California's Santa Anita Park the most beautiful race track in the U. S., 50,000 turf addicts gathered for the rich Santa Anita Derby, first of this year's three $50,000 races for three-year-olds.* With the exception of William Ziegler's elegant El Chico, No. 1 Glamor Horse of last year's juveniles, who was not permitted to make a public appearance so early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite...
...individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory to social as well as individual behavior. With it they sought to explain strikes, suicides, race prejudice, reformism, lynching, satire, crime, the reading of detective stories, wife-beating, war. They hoped the explanations would provide a formula for predicting and guiding the behavior of social groups...
...team leaves today for Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, where they will enter the Hocheberge Annual Down Hill Race along the Taft Trail. They will compete with teams from other eastern colleges in a double-header down-hill race on Saturday and a double-header slalom race on Sunday. Slated to leave with the team tomorrow are Bill Hinton, Harry Hollmeyer, John Pierpont, Joseph Thomas, Bill Thurston, and Tom Winship. Captain Hinton admits the odds are heavily stacked against them...
Gilkey garnered 217 votes to outdistance his seven rivals in the race for the presidency. Active in P. B. H. activities, he has served as a member of the Freshman Committee, chairman of the Speakers Committee, and as a member of the Senior Advisory Committee. Quimby, runner-up with 117 votes, is chairman, of the Mission Committee...
...Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly professor...