Word: richest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tents blew down and rain made William H. Cane's Good Time track at Goshen, N. Y. a mile triangle of treacherous mud. Only a few sportswriters, accustomed to the racing of running horses in any kind of weather, grumbled when officials decided that the Hambletonian, greatest and richest race for U. S. trotting horses, would not be run that day. Any oldster, munching sandwiches in the Ladies' Aid booth, knew that a trotter, whose right front leg and left rear leg must move in dancing unison,* has no business trying to speed when the going is slippery...
...last year in the old pumping grounds near the Indiana border. Most active of the new fields is the Patoka pool south of Vandalia, where a smart, young Texas company, Adams Oil & Gas, got in first and now has more than half of the 20 producing wells. Richest potential producer is Pure Oil Co., locally known as "The Pure," which brought in the well on Bunyan Travis' farm and now holds oil rights on 282,000 acres...
...urchin writes a love letter to the richest little girl in his class, who haughtily hands it in to teacher, who sends the culprit to the principal, whose amused understanding helps open the urchin's eyes...
...Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling...
...Howard's four-year-old Seabiscuit, 1937 handicap champion, ridden by Jockey Johnny Pollard: the $70,000 Massachusetts Handicap, richest horse race of the summer; setting a new track record (1 min. 49 sec.) for a mile and an eighth and boosting his season's winnings to $142,000; at Suffolk Downs, Boston...