Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The $100,000-guaranteed Gold Cup purse would probably be the last of the big bonanza races this season. With betting off everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last...
In the final round, Betger squared off against a fellow San Franciscan, Ken Towns, 20, student at San Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have...
Last week, Dr. Richard Sweet opened 61-month-old Sandy's chest, tied off the front half of the aortic ring and cut it out. The arterial blood will pass through the rear half, which is expected to grow. On the danger list for 48 hours, Sandy was in...
Cardus clerked for an insurance firm, learned cricket beside a rubbish dump and set himself a course of reading that would have floored an Oxford don. After listening to a light opera one evening, he discovered that his mind "retained music as the kidneys secrete water." (Now, after reading in...
The grasshopper war is expensive. Dutton's division expects to spend some $4-500,000 of emergency funds this year-and next year may be worse, for grasshopper populations have a way of building up over a series of years. But the effort pays off: the Agriculture Department claims...