Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better relations between Jews and Gentiles is the renaming of the 'Jew fish,' which hereafter is to be called the 'June fish,' at least in the New York aquarium. Jews protested that a fish 'so ugly and so named was an insult to their race...
...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...
Speed boat racing is dangerous though not so dangerous as it used to be when there were no restrictions on the boats and speeds of 70 miles per hour were achieved. Such boats were too expensive (over $50,000 each). The committee limits Gold Cup racers to 625 inches displacement. Such boats easily make 50 miles per hour. Such boats turn over easily at 50 miles per hour. Drivers and mechanics hit the water hard and break ribs and eardrums easily. George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer, broke ribs and eardrums recently in testing his Greenwich Folly. Unafraid...
...would not be a headline craze again this summer. Miss Ederle, now appearing in "small-time" U. S. vaudeville, and other swimmers may have felt vexed at the "fickleness" of public interest. But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle...
...Bradley's horses and found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch of horses they climbed*; they performed inconsistently and ran good races only when breaking from the barrier far outside. Now they can see where they are going. They run fast in bunches. Racemen at Saratoga are converted. They...