Word: racer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambition of most motor racers is to open a motor repair or accessory shop when they break down physically. Albert Champion, shrewd and foreseeing, abandoned racing while he still was healthy. He imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...
Some 145,000 spectators believed that they had received their money's worth when the automobile of Racer Norman Batten of Brooklyn burst into flames. Batten stood up, like the boy on the burning deck. He steered with his right arm until it was scorched, then with his left, then with his right again-until he brought the car to a stop in front of his pit where the flames were extinguished. If he had leaped to safety when the car first took fire, it might have crashed into the grandstands and killed dozens of spectators...
George W. ("Penny-a-Pound Profit") Loft, candy maker, horse-racer, onetime member of the House of Representatives, last week became a banker by a fluke...
...Freshman team showed speed in its mile relay with the Holy Cross first year men, but finished 18 yards behind its opponents who ran a front race for honors. V. L. Hennessey '30, in the opening laps, made the outstanding Crimson bid of the race fighting at his racer's shoulder the entire quarter of a mile...
...therefore, is only natural that it does not need learning or many brains to make a fair runner, although to make a good racer brains are a prime requisite. From early youth one is confronted with running to the drug store etc, but when one has to outfoot someone that can make his less move as fast as you can, brains are needed, and the difference in brains is often the difference in great runners...