Word: races
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victories brought Radcliffe sophomores the field hockey championship and a head start in the all-sports intramural race yesterday afternoon on the 'Cliffe Quad. After warning up against the freshmen in the first game of the double-header, the sophomore squad topped the juniors by the same score in the playoffs...
Last summer, Miss Brucher was in the race for a seat as the Bonn Parliament. Since 1947 when the Free Democrats invited her to run successfully for the Munich City Council she has told teachers, students and ward committees that there should be more young blood in Germany's infault government...
Nipped Heels. With old-fashioned competition now in full cry, the race was to the swift, but not necessarily to the biggest. Some giants were holding their own; e.g., Procter & Gamble. Under its hard-selling new president, Neil McElroy, who worked up through P. & G. advertising to the presidency last October, the company boosted its net from $13.2 million to $19.7 million (a gain of nearly 50% for the Sept. 30 quarter). International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson turned in a $24.7 million net for the nine months, up 16%, while most of his rivals felt declines. But many...
Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...
...born one day In the county of Clay And came from a solitary race...