Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ernest von Delius, German auto racer who last month placed fourth in the Vanderbilt Cup race at Westbury, L. I.; of injuries after an accident in a race at Nurnberg; in Bonn, Germany...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...
...exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their good times." But the office vacation...
...crew saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost...
Before the Berlin Medical Society, Professor Helmut Dennig asserted that doses of this common kitchen chemical increased physical capacity and endurance between 30% and 100%. A runner "was able to run at full tilt for 42 minutes instead of 20, as formerly. A bicycle racer maintained a sprint for 15.9 minutes, whereas 10.9 minutes had been his maximum...