Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pimlico. The purse was $15,000-mere horse feed. Both had been beaten by mediocre horses since last spring. But 40,000 devotees, nonetheless interested, jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they...
...poked his nose in front. Jockey Kurtsinger gave him the whip. But War Admiral seemed to be standing still. It was Seabiscuit who was pulling away-one length, two lengths, three lengths-in a crazy burst of speed. Still going away when he crossed the finish line four lengths ahead, the little ex-plater set a new track record (1 min., 56 3/5 sec.) for a mile-and-three-sixteenths...
...related, according to the rules of thoroughbred breeding. The female line, not the male, is the basis of all relationships in a pedigree...
...with practically the same squad as last year); the French-speaking Montreal Canadiens (fortified by six of last year's Maroons) ; the lucky Chicago Blackhawks, who finished sixth in the eight-team league last year (converted into championship calibre by the purchase of a complete ready-made forward line from the Maroons) ; and the up-&-coming New York Rangers (whose farm-bred kid team beat the reputable Americans six times in a row during pre-season exhibition games last month...
...many ups & downs as a ground swell. In its early days it was always near the rocks. Since 1930, Government subsidies have helped keep its books in the black every year. Net of $1,007,213 last year was due largely to Government subsidies, plus the fact that the line's 18 small ships (none over 9,350 tons) share a virtual monopoly with the Italian Lines on the hemisphere's second richest trade route...