Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big ocean race in eight years. The sailors, mostly salty socialites, sweated in Newport's Brenton Cove to get their 34 yachts ready. A few first-timers got jitters; in the past a boat or two had sunk on the 635-mile thrash to Bermuda...
...usual, nobody knew exactly where he was in the race. The New York Herald Tribune, in a burst of journalistic enterprise, sent an airborne reporter circling over the fleet ("first air coverage of such an event"). He saw a fleet of sails fanned out, with 70 miles of smooth water between the leader and the tailender. The backwash of a baby hurricane just missed the racers. Even so, one sloop's topmast was sprung...
...Brien's former flat on the ground floor of Claverly House has held numerous trophies of his athletic accomplishments. At 105 pounds, he won the New England Amateur Boxing Championship in 1891 and 1892. In 1901 he added to his laurels three first place cups in single scull races. Two years ago, he placed second in a veteran's single scull race on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Had he been able to take his own specially constructed light boat, and had the winner been over 40, O'Brien feels sure he would have...
...Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...
...race to grab a bigger chunk of the world trade market than it ever had before, Britain passed the first lap last week. And it was running well ahead of its schedule to pay off its import debts by exporting 75% more goods than it did in 1938. Only six months ago, the goal seemed impossibly distant. Exports were barely 50% of the 1938 monthly rate...