Word: recording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Michael had sneezed more than 150,000 times. His parents and doctors decided that the publicity and excitement resulting from setting the British sneezing record (the American record is probably held by a 13-year-old girl, Mary Margaret Cleer, who in 1936 sneezed for 57 days) was not helping Michael's recovery; they shipped him off to the country. His grandmother took him to a cold storage plant, where he sat in a room with the temperature at 18° below zero. When he came out, he was shivering, and sneezing...
Ultimate result: Calumet's high-pressure horse factory, which costs $500,000 a year to operate, earned a whopping $1,269,710 in purses last year; the year before it won $1,402,436, a runaway record. Says Ben Jones: "It's like running a grocery store ... I love to hear that cash register ring...
...restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...
...shares sold short against an anticipated decline. By mid-May, the short interest had risen 130,058 in a month to 1,628,551 shares, the biggest total since the bank panic of February 1933, when it reached a peak of 1,894,632 shares (but far below the record high...