Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capot, who has never been beaten at Pimlico, pounded down the home stretch a dozen lengths in front. His time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 4/5, less than a second off the track record he set in winning the Preakness last May.
Playing on a tile-floored court and using a ponderous outdoor-style basketball with outside seams, a picked Argentine five followed Don Sensato's advice. They used the bounce pass almost exclusively, scooted under and around the Oklahomans who were runners-up for the A.A.U. championship last year, actually...
Divided Land. But while life was evolving, the earth was heating up because of the radioactivity of its stony ingredients. The stony core got hotter and so did the stone-iron mixture. Eventually the outer mixture got soft enough for the iron to trickle down toward the center. Its "fall...
Managing Editor Russell McGrath of the conservative, successful Seattle Times (circ. 208,442) wound up his instructions to Reporter Edwin O. Guthman. Leaning across the desk in his office, McGrath told Guthman: "The courts have broken down. Now it's our job to find out the truth."
To the fierce sufferings of humanity the musical, like the novel, brings a real humaneness and makes a frontal emotional assault that has strong popular appeal. It is indeed the very pull of the thing that, for want of judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has...