Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helpful Harry. As the hearing wore on, Vaughan developed a secondary theme; that he was an enormously busy man who did thousands of helpful little things for thousands of people. He blandly admitted that he had sent officials of California's Tanforan Race Track to see Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, when they needed scarce building materials, that he had helped Chicago Perfume Importer David Bennett get to Europe during the war, that he had asked Major General Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief of the Chemical Corps, to write a "frank expression" on officers who might succeed...
...Truman by his remark to the girls meant to bow out of the 1952 race? The question was asked point-blank at his press conference. He would answer when the time came, he replied, and grinned...
...when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race, Doc Weaver scoured record shops until he found another record of Mirandy-and the Cardinals kept it spinning while they tied Brooklyn for the pennant, beat them in a playoff and won the World Series...
...easy victory in the 1,500-meter final, dockers were ready to time him at those distances. But it was a teammate, Shiro Hashizume, who was ahead at 800 and 1,000 meters, and who set the new world marks. Then Furuhashi overhauled his teammate and won the race...
...Hildreth (Bowdoin '25), whose four years in office were distinguished for Yankee thrift in government and for a colorful State Council meeting held on a hunting trip in the Maine woods. Hildreth, who had abandoned politics when Margaret Chase Smith edged him out of the 1948 senatorial race, was pleased as punch with his new job, endowment drive & all. Said he: "Private institutions of learning today must be made self-supporting and operated within their budgets or face the necessity of appealing...for [government] funds...