Word: skimpier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same. By & large, stories were duller, staler and skimpier...
Oldtimers could properly say that Assault had overtaken the great Whirlaway with inflated money, for Whirlaway had run in a day when purses were much skimpier than Assault's. But Assault, winner of the Big Three in 1946 (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) and of every race he had entered this year, was still a horse with a future: he is only a four-year-old, and full of run. Before he is retired to stud next year on Robert Kleberg's King Ranch nursery at Lexington, Ky., he may well have earned more than...