Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Foot was in front . That much was clear as the horses, digging inside toward the rail , formed an irregular phalanx. A few yards further on Alcibiades, the only filly in the race, passed High Foot and held the lead past the grandstand to the clubhouse turn. As they swung around the turn into the back stretch with a mile still to go, a big bay colt swung to the outside, gaining ground. It was Sande on Gallant Fox?an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does...
...work will be all finished within two weeks and the first flooding of the pool made shortly after that time. The smaller tank, to be used for non-swimmers, is practically done, while all but the floor of the larger one is finished. Work has been started on the grandstand seats, of which there are a total of about...
...designers. All entrances to the tank go first through a shower room, and then through an eight inch deep foot bath. There are two shower rooms, one on each side, containing 30 showers apiece. On the pool floor there are over a thousand lockers in rooms directly under the grandstand seats. Participants will not have to enter these rooms while still wet as there are two drying rooms furnished with hot air ventilation between the showers and lockers. Also, there are squad rooms and visitor's rooms on the same floor...