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Famed because of the "window" in her stomach, noted as an object of important research, Jessie became accustomed to sightseers who were taken to her stall and allowed to peek at her punctured flank. Although last month she was moved to a new stall to insure privacy for further tests, Jessie died. Last week, her carcass was disintegrated in a fertilizer factory...
...them names often shouted by the crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...
...Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...inventor, joke-loving, played with his machine. He flew her toward a fence and, just as he might have crashed, pulled her into a stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then...
...flying at the stalling angle with the automatic slots open one wing drops, the pilot raises the aileron on the opposite side. The aileron movement raises its interceptor to a vertical position. The interceptor interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...