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Word: daubers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post position, he kept Lawrin close to the rail, stuck in the ruck until he found his opening. Coming into the stretch, he pulled out in front-three, four, five lengths- shot across the finish line a full length ahead of William du Pont's fast closing Dauber. Can't Wait was third. Favorites Fighting Fox and Bull Lea finished out of the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From Missouri | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stagehand | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stagehand | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Masefield's Works. Rough sea stories-in-verse like Dauber, long homely narratives such as The Everlasting Mercy and exciting ones like Right Royal and Reynard the Fox, shorter, more spiritual pieces such as The Passing Strange, these with a bagful of sonnets more notable for content than form comprise the works of the new Laureate, symbol of a new order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Laureate Masefield | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world can afford. Let Reynard the Fox still run in the forest, and Dauber, occasionally at least, set out to sea again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROWNING KING COLE | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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