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Word: raced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops . . . will be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes. . . by striking at their pocketbooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: You Do It, Johnny | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Spencer J. Drayton knew mighty little about horse racing, but in 14 years with the FBI he had learned how to smell out sharp practices. Last week, after three months of stable sniffing, coolheaded, closemouthed Spencer Drayton made his first big news as chief snoop for the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' 37 race tracks. Case No. 1 was the story of three jockeys who "connived and conspired" to fix a race at Florida's Tropical Park last April 17. One of them, Robert Keane, then doublecrossed the others by riding to win, when he was "supposed" to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse Detective | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Then, said Drayton, identification papers were switched. Results: for the past eight months Sea Command has been running as Allpulch-usually a long shot, but five times a winner. The real Allpulch has disappeared. At one race in New Hampshire-supposedly Allpulch's "maiden" race-one man cleaned up $30,000 betting on the horse (at 13-to-1 odds) that only insiders knew was really Sea Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse Detective | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Gunnar Myrdal, thinks that amalgamation of U.S. whites and Negroes is highly unlikely, because of: 1) a decline in the number of mulatto bastards, who were the products of much blood-mixing in the 19th Century; 2) Negro inbreeding, which will make white-blooded Negroes darker and level the race at a middling brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Passers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Will Win? With natural gas bidders handicapped, the real race will probably be run by the petroleum men. Frank M. McGraw offered $146 million* on a lease-sale basis. Ryford Pipeline Co Chicago, representing a group of independent producers, refiners and marketers, offered to buy Little Big Inch for $30 million and lease Big Inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inch by Inch | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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