Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race took exactly 2 min., 5 sec. Omaha, the winner, bred for distance but usually a slow starter, broke faster than usual, took the lead on the far turn, stood off the challenge of Roman Soldier in the stretch, finished a length and a half in front. Roman Soldier closed strongly, four lengths ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn...
...last two jumps. On the home stretch, down a lane between red fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur II was still leading, by less than half a length. Fifteen lengths behind, the two other finishers straggled home-Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo and Benjamin Leslie Behr's Outlaw...
...version of the ancient tale of Joseph, he did not expect to find in its archaic simplicity such profound implications as he soon began to discover. The story of Joseph in the Bible takes 13 chapters; to cover the same ground Author Mann has already used up two full-length volumes, will need one more. But, as readers of the first installment know (TIME, June 11, Joseph And His Brothers is not simply an expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that prefaced his work Author Mann stated his thesis: the story of Joseph...
...says D Is For Dutch (TIME, Sept. 24) is to be his last. Last week he published an experimental "interlude"-a story that was as different from his melodramas-washed-in-realism as it could well be. Though Under the Linden Tree is a full-length (200-page) novel, it is really a fairytale, of the same order, though not the same rank, as Max Beerbohm's Happy Hypocrite...
...industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates, hennes, hogs and horses' dung...