Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human race is divided into three types, tall, stocky and neutral," he said. "The overweight and underweight problem will also be discussed. I intent to use many charts and graphs throughout the talk to illustrate my points...
...unheard ode in a minor key that sings their passing acquires the rhythm of a funeral march as one realizes that these are the last brave survivors of a dying race. Next year there will be none. The midyear graduate of the future is an impossibility--for degrees are to be granted only in June. From now on the digits will bear no fractional appendages. The present species is the last of a long line. And his heritage is silence...
Although most of the runners have been working out daily since early in December the practice has been devoted to limbering up and conditioning them. Race and time trials will start immediately in order to give the coaches a chance to get a line on any promising material in the squad. Fast work of this nature will generally be held on Saturdays so that the runners may rest up over the weekend...
...incidents while carefully drawing a thin black line, darkening his eyebrows. "When the killing occurred in a New York performance a real doctor considered it his duty to try and save the wounded man's life; he left the stage as pale as a sheet and got a terrific race from the audience...
August, moneyed peers of the race of Baron Rothschild were annoyed, last week, when the great financial Jewish-sporting newspaper The Daily Telegraph passed from its traditional family ownership into the hands of a mere though potent syndicate...