Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoving off from the Newell float (above) before the recent Eastern Sprint Regatta are the eight men who will probably row against the Blue over the four-mile course at New London on June...
Unlike Georgia's tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Spec Towns, who won the no-meters high hurdles in Berlin in 1936, Bones drives hard into a hurdle. Towns used to float over them. A notoriously slow beginner, Towns seldom got into the race until he reached the third hurdle. Dillard believes that the first seven strides (before taking the first hurdle in the 120 highs) are all-important. Says he: "They say I am unorthodox. But I figure any form that gets you there fastest is orthodox form...
Next day, when Eaton and his underwriting syndicate started to float the issue, the stockmarket was falling and so was K-F stock. Eaton called off the sale. Witnesses before SEC said they heard him say: "We would be just damned fools to go through with this deal ... I would rather have a lawsuit on my hands than be dead broke." Eaton's own lawyer testified: Eaton had asked him if there was any escape clause in the underwriting contract with K-F. Eaton reportedly said he was going over it with a "fine-tooth comb" to look...
...permits her to collect royalties and lead the sideline cheering section. Last week, Sponsor Lever Bros, received a recording of her soothing words to Barbara: "You're too young, honey, to remember when Procter & Gamble had this show. But I have a feeling this time it will really float...
Thursday afternoon the Crimson posed on the Newell Boat House float with coxswain Sam Mantel clutching the gold-encrusted Compton Cup which it defends today. Whether posing with this trophy before the race is symptomatic of sublime confidence or resignation to defeat is a matter for speculation...