Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Calumet's own foals begin dropping early each year, no time is lost preparing them for their goal in life?the race track. Halters go on the wobbly legged foals when they are only two days old. Ben Jones and his hard-working farm manager, Paul ("Dutch") Ebelhardt, like...
Bull-headed Ben rolled up his sleeves. Month after month, he led Whirlaway around like a puppy dog, let him inspect the inside rail, sniff the starting gate, look over the stands. Now & then, Ben would stop to let the horse nibble at some grass. Whirlaway visited the paddock so...
Two years later, Ben Jones got himself promoted to the post of "head trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the...
The dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary...
"A.: He is omnipotent and holy. He created the world and imposed on man conditions impossible of fulfillment . . . He likes to be truckled to and is always ready to pounce on anybody who trips up over a difficulty in the Law, or is having a bit of fun . . .