Word: track
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things as hair, eye and skin color; stature; facial form; size and shape of head. A national population may be a confusing potpourri of many races and racial blends, and the most typical representatives of one race may be scattered among many nations. A specialist in racial anthropology must track down the basic racial features and distinguish them in their jumbled context...
...pretty little Santa Rosa, Calif, last week, 8,000 fun-loving rustics sat in the grandstand of the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, watched 46 local jalopies rattling round & round the trotting track in a 100-mile "Tin Lizzie Derby...
Potentially stranger than his 1936 powerhouse, Jaakko Mikkola's 1939 track team opens its outdoor season against Holy Cross and Northeastern on Stadium cinders this afternoon. At the same time a mediocre Yardling team that lose to Andover last week will tackle cub aggregations from the same two colleges...
...weather is clear and track fast, two Harvard records may have fallen when the sun sets behind the stadium. George Downing, who has been heaving the shot consistently over 48 feet, may well crack Johnny Dean's 1933 mark of 48 ft., 10 1/4 inches. And Don Donahue is conceded an outside chance to pare the 220 low hurdle record, not bettered since Joseph G. Willis '02 covered the furlong stretch...
Last spring young Oros rode his first winner-at the Aurora race track. This winter, still an "apprentice," he outrode his most experienced rivals at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, then moved on to Bowie to lead the field there as well. Last week, on closing day at Bowie, Jockey Oros put on as exciting a show for Maryland racegoers as Don Meade had ever given Hialeah patrons. With a leg up on six mounts, he won three races (including the Daily Double), finished in the money with the other three. His triple brought lis string of victories...