Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doctors 20 years ago rode in buggies often pulled by old grey mares that were not what they used to be. Since doctors have taken to riding in buggies with a mechanical put-put, they themselves are not what they used to be, declared Dr. Joshua Sweet, Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, addressing a congress of Railway Surgeons in Manhattan last week. Said...
King Edward one cup-day at Ascot when Ribblesdale as master of the Royal Buckhounds rode up the midway at the head of the King's gentlemen...
...Yale rode to a decisive victory over the University polo team at Dedham on Saturday, by a score of 9 to 6. By piling up four goals in the first chukker, two of them made in the first two minutes of play, the Bulldog was able to maintain a substantial lead through the hard-fought periods that followed...
...last bit of copy was carried by a plucky little beggar, who rode as he had never ridden before, and was quite done out when he fell off his wheel as he delivered his copy. But he had done his bit well, and the crowd, coming from the game, was met in the Yard with cries of 'Full account of the game! CRIMSON extra...
...cars at Suedia, (on the seacoast due west of Aleppo) and the raking of Druse villages by French 75's, Correspondent Seldes added specific details. He spoke of "pagan tribesmen riding horses like mountain goats" and of "a Druse gendarme who welcomes Americans because he had relatives who rode in Barnum's circus." Beside a Greek ikon in a native stone hut, he found "a faded lithograph of Lillian Russell† in tights...