Word: win
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With academic issues above the interest and comprehension of the average New York voter, Mayor Walker will run on his "record," will win on his "popularity"-unless he decides to take up a new line of business...
...election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...
...once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast three-year-old horse out of Toddle by Light Brigade, humped his shoulders and won the race in a rushing finish...
Hagen's winning score was 292, the same as last year. At the halfway mark (36 holes) Diegel led him by two strokes, 140 to 142, despite a record-smashing round of 67 by Hagen. Diegel had cracked out a 69 himself that afternoon. Next morning he cracked up and had to hit his ball 82 times before holing out at lunch time. Hagen, wind or no wind, dropped back to his steady 75 pace, and held it during the afternoon. Diegel needed a 70 to tie, another 69 to win. He took 77, and dropped behind...
...afternoon. Having won the century in 10 flat over Stevens of Dartmouth, he found himself in the deciding furlong race the only Crimson survivor of the trial heats, pitted against five Hanover entries of whom three had been credited with faster times than himself. He needed a second to win the meet for Harvard and he won a first, again over Stevens, in the time of 23 1-5 seconds, excellent considering the windy conditions of the race...