Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rounded into form and came through with some of the most spectacular races of the season. In the G.B.I. meet he came from behind to take the race easily, but in the Yale meet the finish was even more brilliant. Only in the home stretch did he manage to nose out Turley of the Blue...
...host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every U. S. town. Unhappily, the opening of the new Egyptian Nile Club on the roof...
Across the snub nose of many a U. S. Army bomber is the proud motto: "Mors et Destrnctio" (Death & Destruction). Last week the Army Air Corps made plans to purchase $30,000,000 worth of Death & Destruction within the next three years. First step toward acquisition of 1,000 of the world's finest fighting aircraft will be the purchase of 80 new high-speed bombers to be delivered in 1935. With contracts to be let by competitive bidding. Army officials expect the new bombers will have a top speed of 250 m.p.h., cruising speed of 220 m.p.h., ability...
...Isabel Dodge Sloane's High Quest: the Preakness at Pimlico, Md.; by a nose over his stablemate Cavalcade, winner of last fortnight's Kentucky Derby. Mrs. Sloane's two great 3-year-olds have won five of the major spring races for 3-year-olds within three weeks (TIME...
...fans by his miraculous running catches out in left field. On Saturday he reached his peak by grabbing a tons fly just as it came shifting through the branches of a tree that obstructed the far side of the pasture. Then, too, Hraman Gibbs had to take a nose dive under the score