Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risked being run into the rail by trying to squeeze through on the inside of a front rider. He formulated it into a rule that Eddie still works by: "Never go outside of two or inside of one." Davison was insistent about never losing ground; it cost Arcaro one spill after another, trying to squeeze through between horses. The first bad tumble he had was from a plater named Gunfire at Chicago in 1933. "Don't let anybody tell you that a spill like that doesn't leave a rider jittery," says Arcaro. "I was gun shy for a long...
What are the wild waves saying? For one thing, they may be warning of a storm 5,000 miles away. Last week Britain's Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon told a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences how he makes waves spill their secrets...
Bill Wasserman took seventh in the slalom, the only notable place secured by the team among the fields of over forty competing in each event. A spill at the last gate of his second run knocked Gerry Genn out of a probable fourth place in this event...
...Bogert, the only Harvard skier not to spill on one of his two jumps. went the distance for an eighteenth place in the jumping competition...
Bands & Torchlights. This was not all. Next week all of New Orleans will quit work, put on a-million dollars' worth of costumes, and spill noisily into the streets. There will be 13 parades with bands, torchlights, and scores of magnificent floats. On Carnival Day a million people will jam along Canal Street, jostle, throw confetti, sing, and, quite possibly, get more than slightly tight...