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...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...
With only seven games to go, most with teams it has already beaten, e.g., Yale, Princeton and Penn, Columbia looks like a cinch to represent the Eastern League in the N.C.A.A. championship playoffs next month. Rossini & Co. do not seem overwhelmed at the thought of running up against such national strong boys as Kentucky, Oklahoma A. & M. and Bradley. Says Rossini: "The Ivy League is as strong as any in the country. I think we'd win our share in any league...