Word: width
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beheld him then for the first time since the August day when he crumpled, limp as a leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
Premier. When Premier Edouard Herriot issued his political program last year (TIME, June 30), he probably did not realize the depth and width of the religious quarrel he was engendering...
...satisfaction, by virtue of some obscure mental deficiency, to measure the speed of his puny limbs against some unit of speed; such researches he terms "sport," tabulates his results with infinite precision, and rejoices preposterously whenever some new record is brought to his credit. Civilized women, because the width of their hips makes their walk an inevitable, though sometimes a graceful, waddle, have not contributed much to this imbecilic form of experimentation. Their speed upon cinders, earth, boards, is pathetic; on ice, or in the water, they do better. Last week in Pittsburgh, an unusually swift woman, Elsie Muller...
There is just one objection to turning up all the billboards. Motoring, in such a case, will become so pleasurable a pastime that the highways must be doubled in width, and relaid every year, and the public will be switched by three Mr. Goodwins instead of one. But such calamities, like the removal of the present pest, are remote possibilities, always pleasant to anticipate...
Crimson Catchers will become African Dodgers when the plans of the Baseball Managing Staff have been carried out. A canvas target is now under construction, which when suspended from above, will form a booth somewhat similar in appearance to a side-show at the circus, A rectangular hole, the width of the home plate, and representing the distance from shoulder to knee of the batter, will form a bullseye for the aim of the University pitchers. Catchers will hold workouts behind this target, and stop any balls that find the opening...