Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British 220, unlike the American, is run on a curve. Since the race will be run English-style here, Harvey Thayer and Yale's Hobart, Gottlieb, who will represent the Americans in the event, have been madly practicing starts on a curve...
...French birth rate used to be taken as evidence of race suicide and moral decay; it is now higher than at any time since records were first kept in the 18th Century. On the eve of World War II the rate was 14.6 per 1,000 population. It has risen to 19.6. Reported Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly...
British Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
...Garden State Park, N.J., chestnut Palestinian won the $50,000-added Jersey Stakes, the race-of-the-week for colts, beating pace-making Olympia. His time for the mile and a quarter, 24 4/5, broke the track record set by Citation in 2:03 in the same race last year...
...Toronto's Woodbine Park, a brown colt named Epic won Canada's race-of-the-year, the 89-year-old King's Plate (worth $10,000 plus 50 guineas...