Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-legged Johnstown, whom railbirds nicknamed "Big John." It was his idea to breed his fleet-footed Jamestown with La France, a beautiful little mare who, because of a broken hip, never could race. Johnstown was their foal and Owner Woodward had followed the colt's career as though he were an only child...
...year-old Jim Fitzsimmons, who had saddled both Mr. Wood ward's previous Derby winners. To "Mr. Fitz," as he is known to all racing folk, went 10% of the prize money. Another 10% went to Jockey Jimmy Stout, who had won his first Kentucky Derby al though he had ridden a favorite twice be fore. An hour later, while Louisville toasted Johnstown as another War Admiral, another Exterminator, another Man o' War, the big bay received his reward: three quarts of oats, a quart of carrots and three kinds...
...succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team, 35-year-old Lou Gehrig last week asked Manager Joe McCarthy to remove him from the Yankee lineup...
...Mammy, California, Here I Come, Pretty Baby. Though Plugger Faye's My Man lacks the poignant tragicomedy with which homely Fannie Brice invested it, her cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...
...President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...