Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the Yale race, the varsity eight, with sophomore Jack Wilson replacing Bill Rowe at the vital stroke oar, sailed for England to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta. The varsity easily led London Rowing Club, Jesus College of Cambridge and Argonauts Rowing Club of Toronto in successive heats to win the great silver mug exactly 25 years after a Harvard junior varsity eight captained by Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, had captured...
...night of July 11, Dr. Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come close." Speculator Smith decided his prize was worth $10 a pound, demanded $800 or more...
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Being a very ardent reader of TIME for some years, I thought it only my duty to write and let you know just how it helped me out recently. While hitchhiking from Toronto to a small town near Callandar, the home of the Quints, I was having very good success, but TIME magazine was my saviour. 1 seems this man driving a new car passed me near a town and when I walked through it I noticed him starting up again, this time he didn't pass me by, but stopped himself without me raising my hand...
...join the Giants-all within 14 months. Last week, on the same day that old Pete Alexander, along with ten other living Immortals, was installed in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Tony Lazzeri quit major-league ballplaying, signed up as manager of the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs...