Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
...race this season, doubted whether even foxy, strong-fingered Henry Thomas could handle him. At the end of the first one-mile heat, when McLin, trotting in faultless gait, came home three lengths in front, railbirds fancied they might be wrong. At the end of the second heat they saluted a great horse. McLin had won in straight heats (2:02 ¼, 2:02¾). To Owner Sheppard went $19,944, just $56 less than the amount he had paid Bill Cane the week before...
Nicotinic acid, a distant relative (about second cousin once removed) of tobacco's nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...
...Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official nudist organization, held its second annual Pacific Coast convention at Estacada, Ore. Accomplishments: election of officers (who modestly withheld their names), formation of the Western Sunbathing Conference, reaffirmation of nudists' high ideals...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...