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...long gallop from Citation's alltime high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plenty of Horse | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Master's Voice. In Newark, Ark., a span of mules heard the opening bars of Mule Train over a nearby jukebox, broke into high gallop at the first "Hiyah," scattered and splattered their load of plows all across town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Carroll) fostered the fad of the portmanteau word (samples: chortle, combining chuckle and snort; galumph, to gallop triumphantly). But by & large, students have always been the real wordmakers. Sometimes, indeed, their words have become English. Among them: blazer, sophomore and constitutional-originally a bookworm's form of exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undergragger Talk | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tower Fallacy | 3/31/1950 | See Source »

...Santa Fe on a treacherous mission: to guide a gold-bearing wagon train into a bushwhackers' ambush. The wagons also carry beautiful, red-haired Arlene Dahl, who brings out strong, silent love in McCrea and villainous lust in Sullivan. Brought this far, any moviegoer should be able to gallop into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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