Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many owners and trainers, wondering out loud if either Warren Wright or Ben Jones has any sporting blood in his system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight. At anything like even weights, Citation and Coaltown are admittedly in a class by themselves. Horsemen and...
Pert, nut-brown Coaltown is the speed horse. He naturally bounces along at top speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown...
Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by...
Published this week is a new Sayers book that lies somewhere between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting...
Big & Little. The first big international sculpture show in the U.S. since World War II, it was far too big and varied for quick & easy trend-spotting. Critics confined themselves largely to discussing individual works, observed in passing that the show was roughly divided between monument-type statues and the...