Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the same bill arose from the dead before the U. S. Supreme Court and so important seemed the issue at stake that Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, reverting to his old role of Solicitor-General, hurried to the Capitol to appear before the court as the President's advocate...
...Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm owned by one Abe Bartelstein. He has won seven out of eight starts...
Hemenway Gymnasium will be the scene on Friday and Saturday of this week of the Annual New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament which was held last year at Tufts College in Medford. For four consecutive years Harvard has won the title which will be at stake, but Tufts and Brown rule as close contenders to take the championship from the Crimson. M. I. T. and Williams are the other institutions entered in the competition...
...carnival life faithful to its background. From the time a crooked spieler goes to work for a girl-proprietor who is trying to run an honest show, the action moves ahead faster and faster through beautifully dovetailed sequences to a climax in which the spieler, armed with a tent stake, fights his way out of a battle with a mob of "rubes." Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, graceful Renee Adoree and a competent minor cast replace with simple, effective acting the sentimentality common to this type of picture. Best shot: the quiet, sinister mob jostling in the midway...
With $125,000,000 at stake on the interpretation of a single adjective, the Treaty of Trianon was profoundly studied, at The Hague last week, by jurists of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian mixed arbitral tribunal. The Treaty provides that the Republic of Czechoslovakia may confiscate, within its borders, all estates and properties belonging to persons whose families are covered by the $125,000,000 adjective...