Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy men were on the list of entrants last night, and Coach Jaakko Mikkola announced that the last hour for entries had been put off to a short time before the start. It is expected that there will be almost 100 men in the race...
...first volume of the decline of the west considered the development of civilization through the media of philosophy, art, mathematics and physics. The second volume considers its development in the different forms of religion, law, politics, economics, language, race, cults and classes. Fear love and faith are all taken into account in this analysis of the world and of the human soul...
After putting this quaint remark thoroughly through its paces, Stanley Baldwin said that in his opinion Abraham Lincoln was "one of the greatest men produced by our race...
...Chicago, 14 teams in a six-day bicycle race rode 29 miles in the first hour. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one Tony Chico pedalled a bicycle without stopping...
...Midnight Taxi shows Helene Costello falling for an honest bootlegger in a complicated but exciting melodrama filmed on a train. A variation between the race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...