Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that still?the fastest lifeboat crew in the world. . . . They won the international race in New York harbor last year, and they'll win it again...
Youth, personified by George M. Lott Jr., whom the U. S. substituted the week of the matches for seasoned Francis T. Hunter, was inadequate before Jean Borotra, who leaped about to win...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
...Assuming that Russia seriously pursues war she will undoubtedly win-unless Japan steps in. Japan could stem any Russian advance with comparative ease, in spite of the fact that the Russian army is today extremely well organized and much more efficient than it was in Tsarist days. It is well equipped, well armed and well clad, loyal and enthusiastic. . . . The Russia Air Force is large, well equipped and efficient...
Every year one talented man, usually young, writes a novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes...