Word: gallop
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Jalopy from Gallop...
COME, COME MR. EDITOR DON'T BE SO ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month...
...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
This inaccuracy in equestrian art persisted until 1872, when patriarchal Governor Leland Stanford of California, a famed horse breeder, bet two cronies $25,000 that there is a moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten...