Word: furlonger
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...school alone, according to an Australian survey, decimalization would save teachers up to 50% of the time they now take to teach children mathematics. In addition, English children often have to memorize the medieval apothecaries' scale (20 grains to a scruple), linear measure (40 rods to the furlong), dry measure (4 pecks to the bushel) and liquid measure (52.5 imperial gallons to a hogshead...
...holiday crowd of 6,500 looked as if it had been ordered from general casting by the director of a western movie. At the mile-high, five-furlong race track near Ruidoso, N. Mex., wizened Texas cowpokes in shrunken Levi's clutched $100 bills while they hunted for the parimutuel windows. Dark-faced Apache youths in blue jeans lined up along the rail reading their racing forms. Oklahoma oilmen in neatly tailored riding pants shared tacos and tamales with their Dior dressed wives. Track police sported Stetsons and packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled...
...playful, 950-lb. colt that cost Trainer-Owner (with his wife) Jack Price only $400 in stud fees, Carry Back already has earned $739,068-more than any other horse his age in racing history. He has won at nearly every distance from three furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths, on every kind of track, under every conceivable condition except snow. He took the Florida Derby in the mud, the Garden State Stakes in slop, the Kentucky Derby on an offtrack, and the Preakness on a fast, cuppy (i.e., crumbly) surface. Although he holds the five-furlong track record...
...Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...
...Swift-running Lincoln Road, the honest little dark bay colt that made his reputation running second to Tim Tarn in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...