Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis, but two factors bearing on the use to which men put science: 1) peoples' "mythmaking suggestibility," their "natural lust" for facile explanations; and 2) "greed and will to power, and the temptation to which the kind of omnipotence meted out by science . . . gives rise in the human race...
...Paris, Rita Hay worth watched Aly Khan finish next to last in a horse race for gentlemen jockeys (gibed the railbirds: "Trop d'amour"). She also announced that they would get married "within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner," she added demurely, "but we have to wait...
Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...
...than a swimmer, still regrets that he didn't make the gridiron grade. He didn't take up swimming until he hurt a knee playing high-school football. The knee still bothers him. His favorite story is how it clicked back into place before his big Olympic race, while he was marching to the flagpole for some welcoming ceremonies...
Shepherd. In New Plymouth, New Zealand, a priest at St. Joseph's Church advised his congregation to "put your notes in the plate and keep your silver to back Earldale [at 10 to 1] in the last race tomorrow," but when the horse won, the clergyman admitted that at the last moment he had switched...