Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great grey put on three breathtaking finishing sprints that would have done credit to "Snapper" Garrison, the jockey who became immortal for his come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). In his first handicap race, carrying a top impost of 130 Ibs., the Dancer proved once again his flair...
...Stream Magazine ($1,300,000) and the James Heddon's fishing-tackle company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things, he was figuring on a basic change in the U.S. economy: "Shorter hours mean more fishing." Following the same line of thought, he leased Colorado's Royal Gorge Bridge, a tourist attraction complete with an amusement ride for children, bought a string of outdoor movie theaters, and a resort hotel in La Jolla, Calif. With Robert R. Young...
Addressed to President Eisenhower, the petition reads simply: "We, the undersigned, wish to express our opposition to United States intervention in Indo-China." The group had considered endorsing several longer and more detailed statements on the Indo-China crisis, issued by national pacifist organizations, but finally settled on the shorter form in the hope of eliciting greater student response...
...last week let them out a little more. In announcing two new security issues to raise $2 billion in new money and refund $7.2 billion of maturing securities, it set the lowest interest rates in several years. And instead of a longer-term bond issue, the Treasury resorted to shorter-term notes for fear of siphoning off long-term investment money needed by industry as well as state and local governments. The issues:
Though he was already the Derby favorite in the winter betting books run from Tijuana, Mexico, Correlation went to the post in the mile-and-an-eighth Wood Memorial at odds of 2-1. And even those odds were shorter than Correlation would have carried had it not been for the fact that he was to be ridden by sage little Willie Shoemaker, 22, a master at getting the best out of his mount at the right time. The odds-on favorite of the Eastern crowd was C. V. Whitney's sturdy brown colt, Fisherman, winner a week before...