Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down Britain the Snowden victory seemed such good politics, last week, that dopesters freely declared the Laborites could win another 50 seats in Parliament if they could find a plausible pretext to hold a general election this month...
...opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army of some 200,000 unemployed, Dr. Gumpert cried: "Look at them! How many are ugly-needlessly! Thousands will have work when we have helped them...
...drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur D. Story until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend...
Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...famed oldtime National League baseball pitcher (Brooklyn, New York) was successfully operated on in a Brooklyn hospital, for an intestinal disorder. He got his nickname in 1904, when he helped the New York "Giants" win a pennant by pitching and winning three "doubleheaders" (two-games-in-one-day) in close succession...