Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extremely rare for a stallion to win, rarer for one which has stood at stud, as had Battleship...
...Only 15.2 hands high, Battleship was one of the smallest horses ever to win...
...Battleship's trainer was Reginald Hobbs; Battleship's jockey Bruce Hobbs, 17, the youngest British professional jockey, youngest ever to win the race. Together they were the first father-son, trainer-jockey combination to carry off the Grand National...
After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...
...lists revealed only two big changes in the ranking of popular favorites. Five months after publication. Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came suddenly got its second wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...