Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Along, Fight." Racing fans knew Mrs. Graham best for her third Maine Chance Farm, built for horses, not women, in Lexington, Ky. She bought her first race horse in 1931, and by 1945 she had built her stable into the nation's top money winner (TIME cover, May 6, 1946). Arden babied her horses as much as she did her customers, piped music into their stables, ordered her grooms to treat the animals' cuts with Ardena Eight Hour Cream, massage their legs with Ardena Cleansing Cream. Because, or in spite, of this treatment, her Jet Pilot...
...samples were sent to the U.S. Agriculture Department; along with 4,000 resistant selections from other countries they were subjected to 264 and other strains of rust. From the fierce competition, a strain of wild oats that Wahl had found near Israel's Mount Carmel emerged the winner...
...cross-country team showed historians the form that let Daniel Boone make it safely 20 miles to Boonesboro, when it was humiliated here yesterday, 15-50. A total of eleven Harvard runners had crossed the finish line before the first Indian straggled in, three minutes and three seconds behind winner Doug Hardin...
Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
...announcement of the results had to be delayed while contest officials frantically searched for Radu Lupu. He was found at last, wandering the hallways, gulping air in an effort to pacify his queasy stomach. But the agony had been worth enduring: minutes later he was named the first-prize winner. The pressure off, Lupu celebrated at a post-performance party by playing Gershwin long into the night. "I am very, very glad that it's over," he said. "I don't really like competitions. They are too nerve-racking...