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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jockey Mills's closest rival this season has been a sloe-eyed Italian urchin, one year younger and six pounds lighter. He, Jockey Sylvio Coucci of New York, had a success at Agua Caliente a year ago. The Greentree Stables, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, bought Jockey Coucci's contract from the Coburn Brothers (John and George), onetime racehorse owning partners of Jack Dempsey. His record with 835 mounts this year has been 161 winners, 143 seconds. He has won only twelve important stakes this season, to Mills's 18, but Coucci's twelve were worth...
From needlework Aristide Maillol turned to painting, studied under Cabanel at the Beaux Arts in Paris. For ten years he slaved over an easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...
Persuaded to choose a more temperate course, McGloin first tries to buy out Fordham, then West Point and Annapolis. Finally he founds a Carnarsie University, acquires competent coaches, converts his stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot...
...statement issued at University Hall is as follows: "The visiting system is intended to bring the University into sympathy and communication with the outside public through the greatest possible number of contacts. Members of a visiting committee are selected because of their interest in the success and usefulness of the department to be visited. Nothing tends more directly to hold a department to a high standard of progress and efficiency than the knowledge of its members that their work will receive sympathetic support if good, and intelligent criticism if poor. Largely through its Visiting Committees, the University keeps in touch...
...state-by-state tabulations, Hoover's success may be attributed to the staunch support of 698 Massachusetts Republicans. The vote for the Bay State totalled...