Word: three-year-old
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...Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...
...whether or not the sentiment for peace grows in China, a Chungking armistice would not mean the end of the Far Eastern conflict. The last flanking movements in the three-year-old War in China had become the first forays of the Battle of the Eastern Empire...
This week Mrs. Brannon's unusual school, the Sherwood School of Bloomfield Hills, finished its first year $10,000 in the red, but pleased with the accomplishments of its remarkable pupils, aged 2 to 13. Mrs. Brannon had no trouble finding bright children, had less luck finding bright parents. She started with 50 pupils (average I. Q.: 128). She soon weeded out three: a three-year-old because his mother insisted on too frequent brushing of his hair, a five-year-old because his parents spoiled him, a seven-year-old because he was too stupid...
...medal will be awarded for Tobias's attempt to rescue a three-year-old Cambridge child fallen through the ice on the Charles River March...
Last week, 13,000 racing fans turned out at Kentucky's Keeneland Park to watch Big Bim run in the Blue Grass Stakes, his first appearance as a three-year-old. With ailing, 80-year-old Colonel Bradley watching from his car near the clubhouse, Bimmy, floating along with his tongue stuck out and his eyes half-closed, proved that he is just as good at three as he was at two. On a slow track, without any urging, he ran the 1⅛ miles in 1:51 flat, beating Joseph Widener's Roman by two lengths...