Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blind men struggled, strong men collapsed; screaming women were bitten by eels at Toronto. All for a prize...
There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water...
...larger cities on the itinerary: Detroit, Milwaukee, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Toledo, Youngstown, Columbus, Minneapolis, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, Birmingham, Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga...
Canadians Best. In Toronto, Commander Byrd addressed the Canadian Aeronautical Association ingratiatingly: "Canadians generally make the best aviators in the world." As proof, he cited War figures...
...succeed Norman G. Heyd of Toronto as Supreme Dictator, the Moose elected Ethelred M. Stafford of New Orleans...