Word: winner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the rules of professional penny-pitching, the winner is entitled to collect his opponents' money; if the players are amateurs and want to keep their amateur status the pennies must be shunted back to their original owners when the evening's activities are over...
Sadja Stokowski '51 was named winner of Radcliffe's Oliver-Dabney Prize in History 1 for her essay on the Italian elections of 1948, Michael Karpovitch, professor of History, announced yesterday...
Before he was through, Whirlaway won $561,161 in purses and became the world's leading money-winner. "I couldn't stand a horse like Whirlaway now," says Ben, "he'd take too much...
...sidelines, Ben Jones & Partner Jimmy are not exactly badly off. Wistful, easily the outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching Club American Oaks. Calumet's 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, Ponder (son of Pensive), is one of the favorites for the Belmont Stakes two weeks hence...
Died. James Truslow Adams,† 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn...