Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bible was freely quoted: "Six days shalt thou labor". . ."The laborer is worthy of his hire". . . "If any offend the least of these, better would it be if a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were drowned...
...Crimson victory in the first game, upsetting the predictions of the dopesters, and the neck-and-neck struggle in the Tiger's own lair, which went to Princeton only after a ninth inning rally, will offset in some measure the comparative scores which make the Orange and Black the favorite for tomorrow. Upsets are all too common in such series, and the final verdict may depend, as it did in the second game, on which team gets the breaks...
...Cloud, Epinard, French champion racehorse, was beaten by English-owned Sir Galahad III?by a neck...
Five horses, flying down the home stretch in the Kentucky Derby, flashed across the finish line almost neck to neck. Two of these five might have won if the race had been shorter. Two others might have won if the race had been longer. But the horse that did win was produced from behind at just the moment to capture the prize?which, after all, is exactly what the others were trying to do at that particular second...
...Field. Almost at Black Gold's neck raced Chilhowee, owned by the Gallaher brothers of Louisville. A nose behind him was E. R. Bradley's Beau Butler, a horse that jumped from tenth place to a near winner in the last quarter of a mile. Had he gone on?or, for that matter, had C. Bruce Head's Altawood gone on? perhaps the result would have been different...