Word: gauntlet
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...Hambletonian itself, the ancient starting method was used. Ten times the ten horses went over the starting line, ten times were sent back. It was apparent that three drivers with bad scoring positions were trying to tire Gauntlet, the pole horse. On the eleventh score, the starter finally said...
...motion. At the first turn, Doc Parshall, driving the favorite, Peter Astra (2:02 ¼), whizzed by the field on the outside, saw his opening and took it. From then on it was just a breeze. Peter Astra finished the first heat* three lengths in front of second-place Gauntlet. The second heat was even more one-sided. Starting from the pole position because of his victory in the first heat, Peter Astra won by five lengths, took the Hambletonian Stake in two straight heats...
...waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, threw down the gauntlet to the totalitarian states today in one of the most outspoken denunciations of the Fascist states yet made by anyone in high Faculty circles...
...Washington, the Morgan gauntlet was picked up without delay. Texas' Maury Maverick, who thinks that TVA may have sold too much power to private companies and too little directly to consumers, introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted that the investigation be kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire...