Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he was made tardy by listening to the Seabiscuit-War Admiral horse race on the radio...
Even closer than the Crimson inter-House football race, in which Winthrop and Kirkland tied for first, was the Eli struggle for College grid supremacy. Berkeley finally won out when its chief rival, Saybrook, was tied. Before the Saybrook deadlock, four teams had been tied for the title...
...rescues its ten ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...
...beer: after the fourth or fifth schooner the audience roundly cheers the Harvard man for refusing to touch liquor, just as roundly cheers the Girl from Wyoming (June Walker) for having been weaned on it, loudly hisses a villain who looks like a referee at a snake race...
Time was when a course in oratory was standard preparation for a political career. Today a shrewd campaigner takes lessons in radio technique. But radio campaigning is a young art, ripe for experiments, knotty with problems. Last week New York's ding-dong gubernatorial race produced one of each...