Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second...
...stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year to win fame at Poughkeepsie. Last week, for the first time, eastern crews went west to race on Seattle's Lake Washington...
...hardly expected its Huskies to win (Washington had scuttled crew during the war). But Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T. Rutgers and California were all coached by Washington alumni, and used the Coni- bear stroke. Only Wisconsin, which claimed that it trained on Wisconsin cheese and hadn't lost a race all year...
...Henry, one for Uncle Sam. Profits on which taxes were paid were determined by avarice, not earnings. Fictitious expenses were put down; the bulk of the tips to hat-check girls ($5,000 a month) was pocketed by Lustig and not reported. Lustig's house hold expenses (and race horses) were charged up to corporation expenses; $18,142 went to a decorator, $913 for Mrs. Lustig's modes, $2,300 for her molars...
...internal conditions of our country are chaotic. Our annual liquor bill runs between seven and eight billion dollars. Our crime bill amounts to 15 billions a year. . . . We refuse to face race problems. There are 13 million American Negroes who are only enjoying a second-rate citizenship. . . . And we don't have to look to the deep South to find people who believe in the supremacy of the white race...