Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geddes horse-racing game was one of his most famed. It occupied an entire floor of his studio. The miniature race track was 20 feet long, lined with real grandstands. Twenty mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were...
Flyer LeBrix was the more forehanded in the race. He took off from the Istres Airdrome near Marseilles, long before dawn of a freezing day last week. He was well over the Mediterranean towards Tunis when press despatches reached Flyer Costes at Paris...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...
...among his ancestors. He was born in 1866 in Quincy and graduated from Harvard in 1888 as president of his class. Since then he has achieved distinction in many walks of life. Long an authority on yachting, he won fame as skipper of the Resolute in 1920 in the race against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV. He has been conspicuous as well in the business world, and is at present trustee or director of more than 50 different corporations. It is believed that he was the first to suggest anything similar to the present House Plan, of which...
...have been evident in all of his family. Since the colonial days when they captained ships out of Boston and Salem harbors, his maternal ancestors, the Crowninshields, were among the most famous of New England seafarers. Only last year Mr. Adams himself sailed across the Atlantic in the Spanish race. Among his paternal forebears, there have been many distinguished public men, two of whom were presidents of the United States. And recently it was divulged that President Cleveland extended an invitation to his father, for the very post which the son is now to fill. Thus Mr. Adams, who inherits...