Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about every five minutes.* Where TIME lay down was in not printing some of the real sport news of the week. Why not tell how Babe Ruth socked his 37th, 38th and 39th and 40th homers? Why not write up some of the good fights ? How about the races? Maybe they wouldn't admit it but I bet you most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green." Oh, Percival! Oh, Clarence! When TIME left out such things it was laying down, just like they...
...should ask me, I'd say the Follies type [TIME, Aug. 29] compared to other types of show girls is about the same as a show horse compared to a race horse. All a show horse does is stand around and get looked at. A race horse can do something. I've seen them all and I know. Once they get in the Follies you know they'll never be anything but glorified dumbbells. . . . Give me a girl that works for her living, every time, instead of one that works somebody by just being dead from...
Sessions of the different sections in Detroit were similar to those of the American Medical Society in Washington last May. Noteworthy was the attitude of the Negro doctors, dentists and druggists that they were responsible for the health of their race...
Bennet Griffin, flying the Oklahoma, rose from the ground at Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators...
...days latef arose from the Oakland Field Capt. W. P. Erwin and navigator A. W. Eichwaldt in the Dallas Spirit; the wind rent in her fuselage, which had ruined her chances in the race, had been repaired. They were flying for Hawaii, on a hunt for the Golden Eagle and the Miss Doran. The ship was radio equipped. Messages drifted back...