Word: wrack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual a heavy rain fell at breakfast time and cleared off at lunch. In long sheds filled with betting machines men and women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...
These, figures should be instrumental in dispelling the belief that American colleges are leading their youths to wrack and ruin, if the public does not take the view that college men are more successful in the pursuit of crime as in other occupations--and judging from the prevalent idea of the lack of correlation between "college man" and "success", this should not be the case. Indeed, the average graduate may have become so supersaturated with the confinement imposed by the four year away of his Alma Mater that he takes particular pains not a subject himself...
Next afternoon the English Channel was strewn with fog and a wrack of rain. Approaching Romney Marsh on the shore of Kent, a big new Farman Goliath passenger plane, belonging to the French Air Union, sent chills through its 13 passengers by groping low for its bearings, faltering as with engine trouble. Steering over the marsh toward the village of Hurst, the pilot struggled with his controls. A barn roof loomed underneath. The world tipped crazily, spinning around. Crash! A haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain...
...noonday clanguors wrack...
...written about the proper place of athletics in University life. There have been debate and difference of opinion. But on one point there can only be unanimity: the body must be built up and strengthened during this formative period; a sound constitution must be developed to stand the wrack and strain of future years...