Word: zev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew up in a scandal (he was acquitted in 1928 of conspiracy with Fall, served...
Williams spoke at a discussion of the problem of religious instruction in public schools at a forum sponsored by the Jewish Community Council. Msgr. Francis J. Lally and Rabbi Zev K. Nelson were the other speakers...
...jockey when today's veteran best-Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson-were wearing diapers. He raced to victory on horses with such names as Man o' War, Zev, Flying Ebony, Gallant Fox. and he won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times. In a time of purses far smaller than today's, he brought home more than $3,000,000 worth. In the age of sport known as golden, Jockey Earl Sande was the best in his business...
...Every dog that competed in this year's National Championship was a pointer; in the last decade only one setter, Dr. W. Russell Trapp's 1946 Champion, Mississippi Zev, has managed to win at Grand Junction...