Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have Ike Eisenhower for President than anyone else. A Roper poll showed that General Eisenhower, if he were the Republican candidate, would overwhelm Harry Truman; that if he were the Democratic candidate he would soundly beat any of the leading candidates (only Harold Stassen would give him a close race...
Defeated only by Cornell this spring, Tom Bolles' huskies are considered the boat to beat at the Olympic Trials, scheduled for Princeton's Lake Carnegie less than a week after the Yale race...
...estate on the Thames River, just above New London, Connecticut, is busier than the bar at a class reunion. Here, in complete seclusion, two dozen Harvardmen devote their waking hours to the achieving of the one supremely traditional object of Crimson sports: beating Yale in the four-mile crew race late in June...
Behind this picture lie many decades of experimentation with training quarters and procedures for the annual grind, longest crew race in the world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
...draw a bead on the pacemaker and the power is turned on slowly. When Citation sets the pace (he runs just as well that way), he looks lethargic and uninterested. Once he gets in front, the jockey has to keep reminding him that he is in a horse race. With the odds 1 to 10, Arcaro played his little game again with Citation, to the delight of the fans. He let other horses sneak up on him, then clucked. The gangbuster won by ten lengths-clipping if seconds off Garden State's mediocre mile-and-a-quarter track record...