Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stymie's 28th and greatest win in 106 starts, earned him $73,000. For the second time in two weeks, Hirsch Jacobs' rags-to-riches chestnut (he was picked up for $1,500 in a selling race) had replaced Assault as the world's top money-winning ($678,510) race horse...
...starting gun boomed. Thirty-four seagoing yachts jockeyed their way across the line and out of Los Angeles Harbor to the open sea. It was the start of the first postwar 2,225-mile California-to-Honolulu handicap race...
Patolita v. Garbage. The gale blew itself out, but the near-dead calm that followed was almost as bad. The luckless Patolita radioed that she was having a race with her own floating garbage. Dolphin II found a breezier area...
...women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To skeptics who wondered what would become of the human race if everybody were a Shaker, a Shaker replied that he failed to see how "the bringing to an end of this wicked world would be a great wrong. Most nominal Christians believe it will come to an end in a much less merciful way." Other Shaker practices: public confession of sins...
...that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...