Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The sun broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven...
Meantime U.S. citizens in the stands, and there were many, had been straining their eyes for the silks of Billy Barton, the only U.S.-bred horse in the race. For a time he had raced well. Then, at the nineteenth jump−a rail obstacle, a difficult hedge and a...
Things are looking up in the fisticuff business. For years it has been unexciting largely because it was held in the horny hollow of one man's hand, Tex Rickard's. Others sought to enter the field of promotion from time to time but failed because they could...
Last week William Francis Carey was elected to the presidency of Madison Square Garden Corp., the position left vacant by Rickard. When he announced, next day, that he had leased for outdoor bouts both the Polo Grounds and the Yankee Stadium, New York's big baseball parks, it appeared...
Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had...