Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undistinguished time trial over the mile and three-quarters distance yesterday, the Jayvee eight outclassed the Varsity in form although succumbing to the latter's power. The workout was directed over a six-mile course to the Basin and back with the sprint stretch rowed upstream...
While his country's national tennis tournament went on without him, Germany's No. 1 Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm stood trial for homosexuality. Testimony was taken in Berlin's gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst...
Fabulous Stagehand, winter-book favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby (after he had won both the Santa Anita Derby and the Santa Anita Handicap in California last winter), had apparently passed his peak. In the Derby Trial Stakes at Churchill Downs four days before the big race, he was beaten by two of his lightly regarded contemporaries, and subsequently scratched from the Derby because of a sore throat...
...chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though he had won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park last winter and had beaten Stagehand in the Derby Trial Stakes last week., But if they were not impressed with the colt from Missouri, railbirds should have placed more confidence in the smartest jockey of the year, Kentucky-born Eddie Arcaro, who had the leg up on Lawrin. Determined to win his first Kentucky Derby, 23-year-old Jockey Arcaro...
...church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch-sheet for winners," has found none among Protestants. The strongest of them, Martin Niemöller, has (according to Martin Schroeder) been dropped by his followers since his trial. Thus Hitler has turned to Catholicism, the faith in which he was baptized, and which now counts the nominal allegiance of 27,000,000 Germans.' In Austria, by the Schroeder arguement, antagonism to Rome is deeply rooted. A "Los von Rom" ("Free from Rome") movement arose there...