Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...
...they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt...
...while at the same time the Premier made clear that last week he was neither backing nor encouraging a German move into Czechoslovakia-quite the reverse. Less interested in downing Jews than in upping Italians, Benito Mussolini has long pursued a campaign to make his countrymen proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs of race-proud Nazi incubation. This work of creating 20th Century Romans was handed over last week to a new department under Minister of the Interior Benito Mussolini named...
Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
Wife of Financier Floyd Odium, Winner Cochran covets the mantle of the late Amelia Earhart more than she does prize money. But when told she had clinched the race and the $12,500, she cried: "Goody, goody!" But the race a Labor Day throng of 300,000 jammed the airport environs to watch was the Thompson Trophy free-for-all, 300 miles around pylons. Hottest shots in the field of eight were flashy Colonel Roscoe Turner, 1934 winner and unscathed veteran of six Thompson competitions; and his reckless young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they...