Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifties jayvee race was the closest of the day, with Yale coming from two lengths behind Harvard to win by four feet over the Crimson. Harvard jumped to an early lead and seemed to be a cinch to win, but in the last half mile the Crimson could'nt raise the stroke from a 32, and Yale put on a furious sprint...
...rude bridge that arched the food." Or you can drop in on the domain of Henry D. Thoreau, 1837, at Walden Pond and stay for a drip. Or, two bucks will get you a Youth Hostel Card that will make a weekend trip to Gloucester or the Cape a cinch...
With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...
...problem of finding the RIGHT crew looked like it might be a relative cinch earlier this year. Bolles got his men out on the river February 27 as against March 16 last spring. Since the training edge of a crew is roughly proportional to the mileage it gets in on open water, the early start was a big break...
TIME may boggle sometimes in its part of the fight. Being human, it's a cinch we will...