Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowing as if they were swinging down the course on a practice spin, the Bellboys crossed the finish line seven lengths ahead of Adams House, with the Gold Coasters just a bit more than a length ahead of Dunster. Leverett was fourth...
...still on the curve and the horses nearest the inside rail, though they still had an advantage in not having to run quite so far as outside horses, still faced the risk of being pocketed. War Admiral, who likes to lead from start to finish, drew the post position. One main question of the race, therefore, was whether his jockey, Charley Kurtsinger, could get him away fast enough to avoid being crowded by horses swinging in from the outside of the track. Kurtsinger did so. A few minutes after the crowd of 70,000 had seen War Admiral lead...
...campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size. A specially knitted pommel cloth was by no means the only coddling that...
First step was to finish Luke's education. Architecture was to be Luke's field. But somewhere along the way his quiet talent turned to teaching; by the time he had his Ph.D., architecture and the stage were alike long forgotten. Margery was content to have only the career of being Luke's wife, but she was bound that Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke...
...condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year ago. It is to be doubted though that this supposed handicap should cause him to foul twice in the broad jump and strain so as he never has before at the finish of the hundred. More likely is it that Ben had an off day familiar to most track...