Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great peoples, starting at different points, go forward toward the same end; these are the Russians and the Americans. The others seem to have attained the limits that nature traced for them; these two alone go forward in a race of which the eye cannot see the limits...
...always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
Unanimous approval was given by the meeting to the message which read in part, "recent weeks have seen outbreaks of fascist violence against the Negro people such as threaten the lives of thousands of their race and the civil rights of all Americans--we urge that you use all possible law enforcement agencies to prevent further lynchings...
Trips to ice skating and skiing centers are featured in the winter, as well as the usual bicycling tours. Bike races were an annual event of the club prior to the war, and Heyman says that they will be revived this year. The record for the race is forty minutes from the Square to Wellesley. Distance records run to more than 110 miles...
...most of the season the big question in the National League pennant race had been: what holds the Dodgers up? They had led the parade ever since May 24, at one time were 7 ½ games out front. Last week, a disastrous road trip-on which Brooklyn's Dodgers won 6, lost 10 (including four straight losses to the Cardinals)-seemed to have reduced the question to old rhetoric. The long overdue St. Louis Cards, for the moment at least were right there with them...