Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plunged with unsparing effort into her postwar job as Education Minister. She said her aim was to educate young Britons for the atomic age: "It's a race between education and extinction." In recent weeks she had worried about herself, told some friends that she was "done for." But she still dashed about the country to local school meetings, kept four secretaries busy, wangled money, materials and manpower to build more schools...
...Tipperary. In Belfast last week, Pat Fitzgerald of Coolcrow, County Tipperary, beat 230 other runners to the all-Irish cross-country championship, but his speed (40 min. 31 sec. for six miles) was not the real news. Fitzgerald, like the other contestants from his county, ran the whole race barefoot, through two-foot-deep snow. Said a (doubtless biased) Belfast observer: "Aye, it's not unusual to see runners going barefoot in Tipperary, although the other folks there wear shoes when not in a hurry...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...
...goes well in Florida's Widener, Armed's Millionaire Owner Warren Wright plans to fly the big horse out to California for the Santa Anita race, his first airplane ride. At six, Armed still seemed to have a lot of run left in him-and he was already the sixth biggest money-winner ($391,-575) in racing history...
...fifth lap of the gruelling 440-yard distance, however, both Jerry German and Forbes Norris of the Crimson were the masters of the race, and then the meet, hitting the floats 12 laps later first and second. And with a comfortable 24 points to relax with, Coach Ulen could not be disturbed by the Columbia victory in the final 400 yard relay...