Word: zigzag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derby winner), owned by U. S. Banker William Woodward: the Ascot Gold Cup, No. i race of the world's richest and most fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever succeeded in winning the Gold Cup; the late...
...hope that ripples might top previous crests of 121 for the industrials, 23.5 for the rails, thus show the current wave to be coming in. This week's Rhea letter said that every upward zig-zag step, if confirmed by both averages, would be bullish, but a downward zigzag prior to penetration of 121 and 23.5 would mean danger...
Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
Japanese soldiers advanced only by yards last week on the 30-mile zigzag front along the Grand Canal north of Suchow, key point in the defense of the crucially important Lunghai Railway in north central China. While General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Central Army, poured thousands of fresh troops into the heavy fortifications along the Yi River, the Japanese, far removed from their bases, showed signs of weariness. The Chinese "Hindenburg Line" guarding the railway still held fast...
Meanwhile, the huge floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged...