Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promised immigration visas to 48 Baltic refugees who had beat their way 6,000 miles across the Atlantic in three tiny sailing vessels (TIME, Oct. 28). ¶ Proclaimed Nov. 28 as Thanksgiving...
Trainer Max Hirsch had it all figured out: the horse to beat was slow-starting Stymie (TIME, Nov. 4); the way to do it was to hold back as long as Stymie did, then beat him in the stretch run. Sometimes riders see the wisdom of their instructions at the time, but change their minds later. Daring little Eddie Arcaro is the best rider in the business because he attunes himself to each horse's temperament and capacity, knows just when to ask its best. At the first turn, Stymie and Assault were 15 lengths behind the leaders. When...
...Jayvees Beat Tufts...
...Dartmouth attack which Harvard will face on Saturday emanates from the "T", and has all the trappings--flankers, men in motion and laterals--that the Rutgers eleven employed against the Varsity. Although the Green has dropped four successive contests, they are expected to be hard to beat on their home field, and possess dangerous backs in Con Pensavalle, the team's best passer, fullback Tom Douglas, the captain and Larry Bartnick who had a field day at the Stadium...
...above the knee), grew up mostly on crutches, which became "almost anatomical." She permits herself "one immodest, extravagant vanity . . . the conviction that no one in the world can handle a pair of crutches better than I." On crutches, she learned to play tennis well enough to beat some of her boy friends and compete in junior tournaments. She also danced (on one crutch), skated, skied, hiked. At Pomona College, she became a skilled horsewoman, captained her class swimming team...