Word: relic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a great day for handsome John Gaver, Mrs. Whitney's college-bred trainer, who got a $5,000 bonus for saddling the winner. Gaver had had no intention of starting The Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said he, "that if you don't aim at the moon once in a while, you'll never...
...tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
...Cassandra days, Mr. Keynes called the gold standard a "barbarous relic"; Mr. Norman, in his heyday, said "I am the gold standard...
Last month Ship Lover Franklin Roosevelt visited Boston and Newport, tingled inwardly at the sight of the ancient wooden ships. Constellation's commander, Lieut. John Davis, who returned from retirement last year to take charge of his revered relic, remarked to the President that he would like to see Constellation back on the active list before he had to retire again. Salty Mr. Roosevelt understood, had Secretary Frank Knox restore both Constellation and Constitution to "in commission" status...
High in the Pyrenees Mountains, a cluster of craggy valleys comprises the semi-independent State of Andorra. A relic of the Middle Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...