Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drowned man was Professor Alfredo Trombetti, 63. Once a barber's apprentice, he studied languages, won a scholarship at the University of Bologna, later a Government money grant to concentrate on the Etruscan mystery. He announced last April that soon he would reveal startling findings, but not before they were complete. Scholars waited anxiously to hear whether he had left any notes on his life work, and whether the notes, if any, were decipherable...
...message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...
...Sweet drew even at 90, was a foot ahead at 95. Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot...
Eight youths from Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, Mass. preparatory school, responded to the shrill yawps of a blond 13-year-old coxswain last week and won the Thames Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta, second highest English rowing honor.* Not since 1922 when Walter Hoover of Duluth won the Diamond Sculls, famed single scull race, had the U. S. had so large a share in the glory that is Henley victory...
...third of a length. By the quarter-mile mark they had raised their stroke, imperceptibly slid into a quarter-length lead. Trinity answered, drew level. Both shells were even 150 yards from the finish. Both spurted. Browne & Nichols spurted fastest. That afternoon they raced the Thames Rowing Club, won by a length and a quarter. They were later to be presented to Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, the Lord Mayor of London, King George. Browne & Nichols is almost exclusively a Harvard preparatory school. Harvard men last week rejoiced at the prospect of a sequence of Harvard rowing victories after the Henley...