Word: raynham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lake Carnegie, Yale's powerful eight pulled up to the finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...
...fact is, there is no real need to build this track. The dog enthusiasts of Bellingham, about fifty miles from Cambridge, are only twenty miles from tracks at Raynham and Taunton, Mass. And these tracks, long the favorites of Cambridge fans, are as nice as tracks come in New England. If these "city" people want to build a track, they might do well to look over the Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge areas where, as "city" folks, they would certainly be more welcome. Their plan would definitely be accepted by other dog-hungry "city" people who are tired of driving...
Clocker Spanielle joined his fellows at the dog track yesterday. After losing heavily on John J. Jr. and Spider Rock at Buffolk Downs, the sage decided to try his luck with the greyhounds of Raynham Park...
Born on a farm at Raynham, Mass., Lincoln has always tried to do what he thought was good for the farmer. After graduating from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1916, he became Connecticut's first county agricultural agent, later took a job in Ohio as a bank agricultural agent; in 1920 the group of local and county farm cooperatives which had banded together the previous year as the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation asked Lincoln to become its executive secretary. He expanded the federation to 59,313 members with 230 co-op service stores, where the farmers bought $36 million...