Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week champion two-year-old Dice, his long narrow legs playing up and down like fire, stepped out of a Saratoga stable where he was being groomed for the morrow's Saratoga Special. Gaily he loped a practice mile, sniffed the cool air that smelled a little of horses and saddles, pranced off the track. A stable man leading him rubbed the horse's nose, then looked down at his hand quickly. It was covered with blood. Dice, suddenly tired, stood stiffly while bright red drops made a pattern on the damp turf. Four hours later, blood...
Arthur Potter is a wader, diver, gambler. He earns his living wading and diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...
...from the Atlantic coast over the Alleghenies to the Great Lakes, begins a vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass...
...Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado Springs and recreation. Others traveled west instead of south, to see something up in the Rockies, something which made Denver a most appropriate spot for this year...
...foreground is the judges' boat; beyond the Volant is one of the boats of the Union Boat Club. And the gentleman pullnig the extremely narrow one is Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet who is very partial to this manly exercise for which so city in the world has such facilities as Boston, the fine expanse of the Charles River being unimpeded by navigation and daugors incident to the passage of steamers...