Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Saturday, when a dozen three-year-olds parade to the post for the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby, the favorite will probably be one of these colts. But many a wise old railbird, well aware that the post-time favorite has won the Derby only 33 times out of 67, will hitch his money to a dark horse-maybe With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby...
Other Derby-goers-perhaps not so wise as the wise old railbirds nor so gullible as the tip-sheet students-will put their two bucks on the smartest jockey in the field. That title belongs to Kentucky's Eddie Arcaro, leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three...
Last night's words were as wise as the records promised, and it is scarcely to Harvard's credit that but ten per cent of the student body thought it worthwhile to attend. Whether as Harvard's President, as an expert on the war effort, or as a private individual whose wide experience qualifies him as an adviser for all, President Conant deserved a hearing. At no time could a college president have spoken on a more vital issue, only at Harvard could he have spoke to so few. Though realizing that war has bridged the Atlantic and Pacific, students...
Success in any of these attacks would do two things which Hitler has always felt it necessary to do: they would protect his rear and divide his enemies. Before he turns his full attention to Russia, he might think it wise to try to eliminate the growing threat from the British Isles. He might think it not only wise but necessary to intercept the flow of goods from the growing arsenal...
...therefore, it is deemed wise that anything with minutes and seconds in it be considered verboten except, of course, for actual races...