Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion, has an ideal stride for indoor...
...Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course was wet and the horses ran warily, in the heavy manner of jumpers, and slowly, for the finish in front of the club enclosure was four and a half miles away around the serpentine folds of the course. Grasslands Downs is not so hard...
With the passing of Labor Day, business rounds a definite turn in its seasonal orbit, enters upon the straightaway that usually is marked by its greatest speed. Last week economists, statisticians, chart readers anxiously awaited the first indication of what business will do after this year's turn. It will probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored...
...airport, Pilot Ogden Maxwell Goodsell did not see it. Circling aimlessly, Pilot Goodsell spied a golfer, dropped a milkbottle bearing a scribbled note asking him to lie on the turf with his head pointing toward the airport. Golfer Hunter Y. Lea obligingly lay down. Pilot Goodsell flew straightaway to a safe landing...
...Heathen, ridden by Frank Coltiletti who, because his mount was whip-shy, urged him down the straightaway and under the wire with wild yells and cowboy whoops; the $10,000 Harford Handicap at Havre De Grace...