Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warmed by the sun, cooled by the fierce, antiseptic mistral, favored by commerce and the sea, the land had bred a human race tolerant and amused. Now the Provencals joined in with the invaders to drive the German from their land. Along the shore among groves of cork oak, on the hills where pines tinged the air with the clean smell of resin, Frenchmen fought alongside the swiftly advancing troops of Major General Alexander M. (for McCarrell) Patch, U.S. commander of the Allied Seventh Army...
There had been Pan-Arab parleys aplenty but no action. Every race-proud Arab knew that the time was long overdue for telling the world that Pan-Arabia wanted to play a greater part in fashioning her own future. From the Tigris to the Nile the desert air was sultry with more than summer heat...
...good weather again the intramural baseball league covered some ground in the past few days, showing its first sign of life since the beginning of the competition almost three-weeks ago. During the past three days five games have been played and the results portend a good close race, as was the case when Company C won the soft ball pennant...
...preparation for the first race, only three weeks away, Mikkola is molding his team into top shape with strenuous distance and speed workouts. Although at present he considers this year's squad not so good as the 1943 outfit, he states that "We have some new fellows and I hope that they can come along pretty well...
...annual U.S. harness-racing classic, the Hambletonian (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), was also held last week, at Goshen, N.Y. As usual, a sign hung in front of the county jail reading: "Welcome Horsemen." The race brought out what the black-dirt farmers of Orange County called a "middlin' crop of three-year-olds." The favorite was Yankee Maid, owned by Arch L. Derby of Wichita, Kans., first horse from west of the Mississippi ever to win the event. She won as expected. Her fastest time over the mile course...