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Word: raced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Musial on a straightaway course, the old veteran Enos Slaughter, the captain of the team, surely is still the outstanding baserunner of the 1949 Cardinals . . . Stan The Man makes & breaks the fate and fortunes of the Cardinals, but for fleetness on foot where it pays off in the pennant race-that is, around the bases-give me Enos ("Country") Slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Dragons" & "Gents." Last week's rip through Sepulveda Boulevard (where 30 hot rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation's top money-winning three-year-old. If anybody mourned Citation's absence, it was the gloom-mongers who seemed to take morbid satisfaction in predicting that Citation was all washed up and would never race again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Nice to be Needed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...commonplace ankle ailment which is caused by the pounding of hoofs on race tracks and results in a painful growth, cartilage, on a front ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Nice to be Needed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Three thousand eight hundred and thirty upperclassmen will run the Memorial Hall obstacle race today as the College takes another slash in its enrollment and winds up with less than 5000 students for the first time since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Upperclassmen, Grad Schools Register Today; University Enrollment Due to Drop 700 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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