Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle last week, 50 art students of the University of Washington summer school had an experience: listening to the lectures of a small, swarthy painter, art historian, moralist, critic, ex-automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...
Time was when short, swart, flamboyant Harry Stutz roared around the country in his racer, brought back cups to Indianapolis to show that the Stutz was the fastest U. S. car. In 1916 Manhattan financiers made him a good offer for his company, and he sold out. Stutz Motor Car Co. of America Inc. had 13 resounding deficits during the next 16 years...
...them past Becher's Brook Then another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
...Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond...
...which just nosed out Earl Ortman's Keith Rider at an average of 256.9 m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned her for all she could...