Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently won the admiration of the staff of the New York Times, for which she writes a competent by-line account of women's sports. Only one peculiarity mars her makeup: when disconcerted, she always emits a strident screech, flabbergasts her escorts...
...before the opening, Pilot Benjamin King rode his tiny, single-seater seaplane at an average of 70.48 m.p.h. for 500 km., then at 80.93 m.p.h. for 100 km., thus taking two world records, giving the U. S. more world records than any other nation...
...investor who ever rode a Virginian passenger train would probably refuse the road's preferred stock as a gift. One antiquated train is scheduled each way daily. If regulatory bodies would consent, even that train would not run. Less than 1% of Virginian's revenues are derived from passenger, mail and express service...
...Bronx applied for a teaching job, New York City examiners put her on the scales, shook their heads when the needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped dieting, promptly swelled to 181. Last summer...
...Chicago, when Sheriff's Deputy Will Cabler from Brownsville, Tex., arrived to arrest W. H. Westphal on a charge of selling mortgaged property, Mrs. Westphal removed and locked up her husband's trousers. Will Cabler, unembarrassed, rode all the way home to Brownsville, sitting in the train seat behind trouserless W. H. Westphal...