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...riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year to 226 winners out of 890 mounts, far ahead of the 212 winners that made Jockey John Gilbert...
...normal hearing, airborne sound waves enter the outer ear, set up vibrations in the ossicles ("hammer, anvil & stirrup") of the middle ear. These transmit their vibrations to the liquid medium of the inner ear wherein lie the auditory nerves which carry them to the brain...
Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...
...world has songs by Bach, portraits of the founders by Van Dyke, effigies of the founders by Mme. Tussaud, presentation casks of Napoleon brandy, and a styward (Old English for steward) who is the eighth descendant in line of the original Chiffinch, the first styward, who mixed stirrup cups back in the pre-Revolutionary days for the brave lads, then members of the Glim...
...talk to them about Christ, and stopping their headhunting. He's done quite a piece of work among them." My memory of Bishop Brent is on that hot, dusty mountain road, his hand upon the head of his lowly porter, as the General and I drank our stirrup cup. I was, as I said, reminded of him by reading that the exalted English prelate was yachting. FREDERICK O'BRIEN Sausalito, Calif...