Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then when James Boy, a seven-year-old, suddenly zoomed from last place to win by half a length, the two Washington women rushed hysterically to the cashier's window...
...Dear Sir: Fact is, Dick Harlow asked us to shorten the field to ninety-five yards in the hope that his men could get somewhere against Yale at that length. Sincerely, the Editors...
...combination of courses 2 and 3 was indicated last week, by Franklin Roosevelt's assertion that he anticipated no coalition against him, and by a remark of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, who conferred at length with the President after his return to the White House from Hyde Park. Said Mr. Rayburn: "Now Democrats will be more inclined to be Democrats...
...Government into its finance company suits by charging that 75% of new car financing had been grabbed through coercive means by the four big companies owned or tied up with automobile companies.* At their annual convention in Chicago last week, members of the Conference heard Lawyer Berge discuss at length the theory of consent decrees as a justifiable compromise in the public interest and declare that advertising "probably cannot be dealt with under existing law and must be left for future consideration...
...revealing, revolting stature. He held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward out of its complacent mire...