Word: gallop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a barrier between Lake Ontario and the sea and the St. Lawrence project means the removal of that barrier. The Wellend Canal, now nearing completion, will remove the barrier at Niagara Falls. From Lake Ontario to Montreal is a distance of 182 miles. Between Lake Ontario and Gallop Island, a distance of 68 miles, there is now a channel more than 30 feet deep with a minimum width of 500 feet. Therefore, there is only a distance of 114 miles involved in the improvement. But in this 114 miles, there is now at different points about 68 miles...
...summary: HARVARD OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE Pratt, g. g., Hopkins, Gallop Rouillard, p. p., Mennie Kantor, Rasch, c.p. c.p., Clark Lindsley, 1d. 1d., Switzer Wobber, 2d. 2d., Fleming Hardy, Schefreen, 3d. 3d., Coates Bragger, c. c., Currie Young, 3a. 3a., Neylan Treanor, 2a. 2a., Gallop, Pearson Thomas, Bohm, 1a. 1a., Mee Gallup, Levy, o.h. o.h., Wansbrough Cole, i.h. i.h., Pearson, Gallop...
...whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...
...they stamped with their hooves and their gallop abased the ground...
...yard mark, where he was nipped from behind as he was evading another would-be tackler. Churchill's run in the last period was even more spectacular, the halfback squirming through a big hole off tackle, aided by good interference, and then breaking loose for a 60-yard gallop, in which he sidestepped out of what looked to be at least two sure tackles...