Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like U. S. figure skaters, U. S. speed skaters do not show up well in European competition. At the 1936 Olympics, Norway made a clean sweep of the four speed-skating events. American skaters attribute this to lack of experience in the European (and Olympic) method of racing. In U. S., skaters race in a pack; the first man over the line wins. In Europe, there is no jockeying for position, no jamming at the turns. Skaters race individually; the man who covers the distance in the fastest time wins...
WASHINGTON-The United States today emerged victorious in an international race to establish trans-Atlantic plane service when Great Britain gave Pan-American Airways permission to inaugurate service in advance of British Imperial Airways...
...team's victory as a springboard to leap into first place in the race for individual high-scoring honors. He tallied 2 goals and 2 assists and brought his point total for the season to 11, Princeton's Wyer rose to second place with 10 points, while Bill Morrison, of Toronto, is tied for third with Mel Williamson, of Queens, each with 9. McConnell was the league's high scorer in 1938. STANDINGS OF THE TEAMS College Won Lost Pts Toronto 3 0 6 McGill 3 0 6 Queens 3 2 6 Harvard 2 1 4 Princeton...
...happy and energetic race of scholars are archeologists whose camping ground is the Near East. Except for rare cases like the late T. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but fellow professionals. But their patient patchings have from time to time restored wonderful form to old cultures. Such restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua...
...general manager, at 29 he succeeded his father (who retired) as president. One of the most eligible bachelors in New York, Teutonic, punctilious Jacob Ruppert, who had been appointed a colonel on Governor David B. Hill's staff, served four terms in Congress, bought a stable of race horses, raised blue-ribbon St. Bernard dogs, collected little monkeys, began to pick up choice parcels of Manhattan real estate...