Word: mile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...
Favorite was Challedon. Though a year younger than his rivals, he had already earned more money ($242,000) than either of them, had already broken the world's record for a mile-and-three-sixteenths. More important to sentimental, superstitious racing fans, the big bay colt was bred at nearby Walkersville, had always shown a fondness for the Pimlico track. There he turned his first big trick, when he won the Pimlico Futurity as a two-year-old. There he became the darling of Maryland by beating undefeated Johnstown in the Preakness last spring...
...nine major roads* that serve it. Ignoring the earnings of the roads, the State has assessed them a straight 100% on the assumed "real value of their property" (instead of the 30% to 60% base for other real estate). In 1937 the tax assessed was $9,902 per mile of line. It gave New Jersey the U. S. rail-taxing championship: nearly seven times as high as the U. S. average, 2½ times that of the next highest State (Rhode Island). It amounted for Jersey Central to the equivalent of $682 per employe...
Travelers who have never heard of Whistler's Father have remarked that this 400-mile line is one of the straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas...
Chief Crimson surprises were the amazing performance of Lightbody, a virtual novice at cross country, and Simboli's failure to finish up with the leaders after heading the pack for most of the first half-of the five-mile run, sometimes by over 50 yards...