Word: alita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spitting on one's hands for efficiency is the trick of stuffing a sponge up a racehorse's nose to make him (or her) inefficient. It was tried last week at Empire City, N. Y., on a five-year-old mare named Alita Allen, a 4 to 5 favorite. But she won the race by four lengths, the sponge having been discovered and removed before the start...