Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...Government is convinced now that General Francisco Franco's forces will win the civil...
...defeated in the all-island swimming championship of 1926. His father, Felix Locher, onetime resident of Tahiti, is now a Los Angeles insurance broker. Hall is a second cousin by marriage to Hurricane's coauthor, James Norman Hall. His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school at Neuchatel, Switzerland. He had been acting in a few plays in the down-at-heel Hollywood Playhouse when Director John Ford, a neighbor, noticing his build and good-looks, suggested he be tested...
...horse-racing season covers a full year, from January1 to December 31. During the current season, the two biggest money-winning U. S. race horses have been three-year-old War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), and four-year-old Seabiscuit, champion of the handicap division. Horse-race followers would have liked to see a match between them, but, failing that, were interested to see which would win most money for their respective owners, Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. Twice this season War Admiral and Seabiscuit...
...days later Seabiscuit, about $9,000 behind War Admiral, came from behind to win the Riggs Handicap at the same track, and the race was over. Seabiscuit was the winner...