Word: four-year-old
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They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
Last week, both oldsters went to the post for the first time at California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...
Another highly publicized entry in the Santa Anita Handicap is Victor Emanuel's four-year-old Statesman, sent from England especially for the race. Last week, making his U. S. debut, Statesman finished last in a field of eight...
Under a clever ride by the old master, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's four-year-old won in a driving finish in the $5,000 Invitation Purse...