Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit: "I feel like a race horse beating Citation...
Sophomore Ed Smith and Bill Prior are the only members of the varsity basketball team listed among the top 20 Ivy League scorers, as the league race reaches the halfway mark...
Graham Taylor and John Hart took seventh and ninth, respectively, at Lebanon, New Hampshire, Sunday in the state cross country and jumping championships. This Sunday the team will enter the annual Gibson Trophy slalom race at North Conway, New Hampshire...
...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...
...bestseller of 1948 was not The Naked and the Dead after all. Norman Mailer's big, raw war novel (TIME, May 10) had held the lead all summer and much of the fall, sold 125,000 copies. But by New Year's Day, Mailer had lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...