Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed and he went like a whirlwind, but Gallowglass took that as no excuse for sloppiness. He cleared each of the nine barriers with inches to spare, finished without a fault in 38 ⅔ sec., a handsome winner. Runner-up, four seconds slower, was the U. S.'s Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark...
Fordham, which had yielded no game and only one touchdown this season, fought furiously against St. Mary's, but fury was not enough. Toward the end of the first period St. Mary's whirlwind Wilson, helped by George Canrinus, rammed the ball 65 yd. down the field to Fordham's 2-yd. line where the gun stopped it. On the first play of the second period Wilson broke off tackle for a touchdown. Fordham stiffened and in the second half passed and charged to St. Mary's 9-yd. line for a first down...
Cambridge's colorful, mud-slinging primary campaign reached a whirlwind finish last night. Revolving around the personality of Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, the campaign has been marked by severe criticism of the Russell regime from the three opposing candidates. Mayor Russell is looked upon as practically assured of one of the two places on the final ballot, as a result of today's voting...
Having fired this opening gun, "General" Farley prepared for a South-wide radio address from Memphis on the eve of the Tennessee-Alabama-Arkansas voting. Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi were ready to make a whirlwind campaign in behalf of Repeal on the strict basis of party loyalty...
...Switzerland some people go to sanatoriums just for fun. What, if anything, was the matter with the curvesome Cuban brunette remains her secret. In a whirlwind armchair courtship she accepted flowers from Don Alfonso, gently agreed to his renouncing royal rights in order to marry a commoner and two weeks ago posed with him elaborately for movietones while her impish sister whistled "Who Stole My Heart Away...