Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookworm and esthete, he dabbled in book publishing and other arty ventures while still in his teens. Suddenly, last summer, he got the urge to own a string of race horses, went to Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Joseph Widener and many another famed U. S. turfman...
...Colonel Winn's American Turf Association still owns Chicago's Lincoln Fields, Kentucky's Churchill Downs and Latonia race tracks...
Postponed yesterday because of rain and wet turf, the annual baseball game between the Northeastern University nine and the Crimson batsmen will be played this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...growing pains. He feels within him the stirring of a certain urge. He longs for one thing--to strike out onto the open road, of course. A privileged bourgeois Few mount bicycles, but the average Many have naught but a narrow strip of river bank, a muddy line of turf, to satisfy their longing. Unorganized as the meekest sweated dressmakers, they grope blindly and independently, without help and mutual encouragement...
...next to the last of the 30 jumps -after leading for nearly four miles-Royal Danieli toppled, lay motionless on the emerald-green turf while Co-Favorite MacMoffat and lightly fancied Bogskar led the field past him. Neck & neck MacMoffat and Bogskar took the last fence...