Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, citizens bet an estimated $40 million on their 164th Derby. With gas rationing eased, they hauled out ancient crates and cluttered the 90-mile road from London to Newmarket with traffic jams. Seam-busting race trains pulled out of Liverpool Station. Newmarket (the Derby is run at Epsom Downs in peacetime) was jammed with over 50,000 fans -including the King & Queen and thousands of G.I.s taking in their first Derby...
...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...
...five race tracks, and horses will be permitted to race only in their own training areas. As compared to 5,500 at war's outbreak, only around 1,250 British bangtails will be in training. In the good old days when the Derby was held at Epsom, some 200,000 railbirds would turn out: last year the Derby, moved to New Market, drew about 15,000. At this year's Derby, on June 13, the turnout is sure to be even smaller, as gasoline rationing for pleasure cars has just been reduced by half. (Beginning July 1, such...
...small quantities the pure metal was used for photographers' flashlights, for fireworks, for star shells, as a scavenger to remove oxygen from other metals while molten, in organic synthesis. In compounds it was used medicinally for milk of magnesia and Epsom salts. But today the fact that magnesium is only two-thirds as heavy as aluminum and less than one-fourth as heavy as steel has brought it into great demand. And from almost everything except green leaves chemists are now extracting the pure metal-some 24,000 tons this year in the U.S., twice last year...
Owen Tudor's time for the 1½ miles: 2 min. 33 sec., four-fifths of a second faster than the established Derby record. But because it was made at Newmarket instead of Epsom Downs (a horseshoe course), Owen Tudor's time will not be listed as a Derby record...