Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Light-Fingered. In Palm City, Calif., someone stole a telephone pole...
...three-quarter pole, Assault was 17 lengths behind the pace-setting Natchez, who liked the sloppy going, and Stymie was five lengths behind Assault. Coming into the stretch, it happened. A couple of mud-spattered horses seemed to pull away from the other trailers. From the finish line the leader looked like Assault, and cheers went up from the crowd. Actually, it was Stymie. He had overtaken Assault, and with thundering strides passed him. Then he took after Natchez and beat him by a neck at the finish of the 1⅜ mile grind...
Another lot of graduates will teach eighth grade general science, sixth grade geography, and seventh grade arithmetic come the fall. Low girl on the teaching totem pole reported that she would teach "things" to fourth graders in Pennsylvania...
...Only an illusion, explains Herz. Actually, he says, the sun is much closer to the earth than most people suspect; in fact, it is probably somewhere near the South Pole. What people see in the sky is not the sun, but its "reflection," cast on the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the earth, according to Herz, rotates more slowly than is generally believed-perhaps as slowly as one revolution every 28 days. Since the dawdling sun's "reflection" whips around the earth every 24 hours, it's not very surprising that people have been confused all these years...
Through the glasses Whitey watched. Now they were past the half-mile pole, and the old horse was leading by a neck. Breathing heavily, Honey Cloud lumbered across the finish line with one length to spare. Whitey Abel, as surprised as nearly everyone else at Long Island's Aqueduct track, dropped his binoculars in the excitement. But ancient Honey Cloud, winner of the first race he had run in nearly six years, took it calmly. At the great age of 13 (comparable to a human's 45 years), the old horse stepped into the winner's circle...