Word: brooking
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...start was a beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher came a cropper and dived under its surface in fear of the flying hoofs above him) the great Royal Danieli fell, dunking most of England's shilling bets...
Kilstar was jumping like a horse in a hunting print. Over the treacherous right-angle Canal Turn and past Valentine's spruce-bunkered brook it was Kilstar and Under Bid. Together they cleared the 15-foot water jump in front of the stands, and roared into the second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring...
...dreamt how he would lie beside that brook...
Christians to take a personal pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
Third team: ends; Brown, Notre Dame, and Young, Oklahoma; tackles; McKeever, Cornell, and Duggan, Oklahoma; guards; Zitrides, Dartmouth, and Bock, Iowa State; center: Brook, Nebraska; backs, Sitko, Notre Dame, Saggan, Notre Dame, Bottari, California, and Osmanski, Holy Cross...