Word: three-year-old
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Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby in 1931. Mate won the Preakness. When the season ended, Twenty Grand was three-year-old champion but many track followers still thought Mate the better horse. Two months ago, Mate was brought back from England and Twenty Grand came out of retirement for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
After six months at home, three-year-old Johnny Woods was last week behaving little better than his twin brother Jimmy, whom their father called a "mug." This was news because Johnny almost from birth had undergone special training at Manhattan's Medical Center whereas Jimmy had been allowed to develop like any ordinary child. As a result when the twins were sent home for good, "conditioned" Johnny was a fearless little acrobat with a personality far in advance of his years and "unconditioned"' Jimmy was just a plain laughing, crying, scary youngster (TIME, July 30). Last week...
...successful, aristocratic young judge. Andi was engaged to an heiress, but his heart was not in it. After protracted and pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie, innocent accessory after the fact, was legally implicated in the murder. After terrific struggles of conscience...
...four important races which Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's three-year-old Cavalcade had won up to last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery had been second. Whether the misfortune of racing against a horse whom experts last week were comparing to Man o' War was an insuperable obstacle was what Mr. Vanderbilt wanted to learn when he entered Discovery in the Arlington Classic at Chicago last week...
What Belgium most fears is that Leopold III, a passionate devotee of mountain climbing like his father who climbed once too often, will continue to persist in this risky royal sport, thus keeping the realm in peril of another accident which might leave the Belgians stranded with a three-year-old King Baudoin...