Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes look upon Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune as the First Lady of their race. She was born of former slaves in South Carolina, walked five miles a day to school. Years later, she founded a school of her own, finally became president of coeducational Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. At 73, she is a dumpy, bright-eyed lady with a penchant for floppy hats and an unquenchably quiet determination to better the lot of her race. "I like Mary Bethune," Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked. "She has kept her feet on the ground-and they are definitely planted...
...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
...head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
Coaltown kept going, his jockey sitting as motionless in the saddle as a park policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
...Crimson took five out of nine first places, taking the 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard freestyle, the 200-yard breast stroke, the quarter-mile freestyle (Ted Norris again), and the final relay. Jerry German, Bob Berke, Shep Brown, and Joe Fox were responsible for victory in that crucial race...