Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four weeks ago (TIME, April 23) there was a pause in the criss-cross race which Lady Sophie Heath (Sir James' wife) was having with Lady Mary Bailey (Sir Abe's wife). Lady Sophie was down in Cairo, fuming at British officials because they had cautiously padlocked her plane and refused to let her fly on to London. Lady Mary was lounging nervously in Tabora, a Central African native village, recovering from injuries and waiting for her wealthy baronet to send her a "Moth" to replace the one whose motor had stalled and which had catapulted her into...
...week this little man, Jose Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...
...problems of life. Some of us know the great benefits arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry on in after life as nothing else...
...annual Harvard invitation Regatta for oarsmen in the University will get under way this afternoon with the events scheduled to take place on the Charles River Basin. A 4.30 o'clock, the Junior 150-pound eights will race over a mile course, with Lothrop Withington '11 and H. W. Robbins '19, referces for the Regatta, starting this initial contest. At 15 minute intervals after the Junior event, the Senior lightweight boats and the Senior singles will get away from the mark in additional mile competitions...
...number of entrants in the singles race make preliminary heats necessary, these will be rowed at the time scheduled for the final event...