Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...
Last week Edvin Wide, onetime Swedish schoolteacher, met Lloyd Hahn of Boston in a special one-mile race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Wide, conqueror of Nurmi, had freely predicted that he would lower the world's record for the event, leave Hahn thoroughly behind in the operation...
True to his promise, Wide led Hahn for the first nine laps. Hahn then passed the puffing pedagogue, won the race by a satisfactory margin of four yards. In so doing Hahn came within 1/5 second of the record, 4 min. 12 sec., held jointly by Nurmi...
Last week a crew made up of eight young ladies from Oxford met a crew made up of eight young young ladies from Cambridge in a half-mile race against time on the Isis River, England. In spite of some secrecy, an unwelcomed male cheering section of 5,000 was on hand and saw the Oxford ladies, urged by a fair coxswain wearing a corsage of violets, triumph over their Cambridge rivals. U. S. headline writers derived great inspiration from the announcement that the winning crew wore skirts; the losers, pants...
Enoch Arnold Bennett, novelist: "Last week I published some paragraphs in the London Evening Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three...