Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-year-old fillies and the Suburban Handicap for older horses, both $50,000-added attractions. Topping the Oaks field is Calumet Farm's Wistful. Topping the Suburban entries?by such a wide margin that he was all but "weighted out of the race" this week?was Calumet's great Coaltown, co-holder of two world's records...
...Jones recognized Whirlaway as a potentially great horse?even though he was foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn during a race, no amount of strong-arming by a jockey could keep him from going wide...
Back of these stars Ben Jones & Co. have a flashy crop of two-year-olds, neatly named as usual by Mrs. Warren Wright. One is Shine Boy, a bay colt whose Calumet Farm report card carries these impressive comments: "Extremely great hay-eater . . . has everything a good horse needs." Another is a fiery chestnut named Urgent: "top Blenheim II colt." Nevertheless, Ben Jones suspects that when Derby Day, 1950, rolls around, a brown son of Bull Lea may be the colt to beat. His name: All Blue...
Vickers does not hope to deliver Viscount 7005 before 1952, but there seems to be no great need for hurry. U.S. manufacturers have given comparatively little attention to the turboprop. Their attitude has been that commercial airliners will jump directly from piston engines to turbojets, but not soon. The problems of the 600 m.p.h. jet airliner are far more difficult than those of the intermediate airplane driven by turboprops...
Into the sea they went that day, every slithering, slimy serpent of them excepting one. "I prefer to coil me great length up and go to sleep," that one told the saint. "I had never a great taste for drowning." "Very good," said Patrick, "then how about coiling yerself in this box here for it is very comfortable." ;' 'Tis not big enough," said the snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point...