Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign for Mayor of Boston. Mr. Curley rewarded him with a $5,000 publicity job but later fired him. In 1935, when Mr. Curley was Governor, Mr. McMasters tried to charter a pari-mutuel betting service, to get "for the State" some of the revenue pocketed by the horse-race bookies. Governor Curley's legal department turned him down. The next year Mr. McMasters ran for Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate Curley and Candidate Saltonstall, but most...
...selective principle is a novelty in Mussolini antiSemitism, but the Fascist Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...
Leila Roosevelt Denis, their native porters and a battery of ubiquitous cameras. In the course of their journey the Denis party discovered a race of giants, the Watusi, who look like Egyptian sculptures and dance like jitterbugs, and surprised a Pygmy tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures...
...first ten men to finish in the Varsity race were as follows: Pen Tuttle '40 (H), John Frederiksen (BU), Sam Wilson (BU), Roswell Brayton '39 (H), David Simboli '40 (H), Gene Clark '40 (H), Bob Nichols '41 (H), George Gardner '39 (H), Richard Wing '40 (H), Edmund Childs...
James Igo of Boston University won the Freshman 1 7-10 mile race in 14 minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...