Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...line in an open car, past the marquee. He shook hands for a long while. Everyone tried not to think of the faceless men, the cripples, the crazed, the dead of 1918; but somehow near in the fresh, fair afternoon were the crash of guns on the Meuse, the flat pound, pound, pound of bombs in Brussels...
...railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
...horse-minded wife, the late Louise Eustis Hitchcock, taught two-legged thoroughbreds such as Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Stewart Iglehart, Pete Bostwick and her own Tommy the ABCs of polo. Squire Hitchcock taught four-legged thoroughbreds the ABCs of jumping. Unlike most jumpers, Hitchcock's are neither converted flat racers nor hunters. He buys weanling thoroughbreds (both in Europe and the U. S.), with infinite patience and understanding, develops them into extraordinarily tractable jumpers. As yearlings, when most thoroughbreds are mighty kickuppy, Hitchcock's pets are as stolid as plow horses, let stable boys shinny up & down their...
...week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about 500 a year. Specially made, musical saws are flat-ground, straight-backed, smooth so the notes will run through the whole blade...
There was a strong wind aiding the runners but Macdonald's time, which was slightly under 10.3 seconds, is remarkable considering his lack of practice. With a full week's work under his belt, he should be able to approach 10 seconds flat, which he made consistently last year...