Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...second heat, Baby had things his own way from start to finish. Favored with the rail position (because of his victory in the first heat), he got in front fast and stayed there-Driver Egan looking as unruffled as though he were out for a morning brush. But when they reached the wire (in 2:03), 60-year-old Fred Egan let out a moppet's yell. After trying twelve times, he had won his first Hambletonian...
Revivals are as much a phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...
...tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...
...bullnecked, leathery man's man, he thrives on the frugal, quiet outdoor life of Washington, N. C. ("Little Washington"), where he lives with his wife and three children in a two-story frame house on Main Street. He likes weekend trips to Little Washington; sitting on the rail fence in front of Arthur Mayo's office on Main Street and talking politics with the boys; fishing in old clothes at Kitty Hawk and Hatteras with Postmaster Billy Culpepper and Bruce Etheridge of Manteo and Dudley Bagley of Currituck; winning a little change at poker during the long winter...
...yacht Water Gipsy he helps patrol the Thames, boasts that all members of his crew are ready for instant action at all times. To prove this, during dinner on board one night, he barked: "Lady Astor overboard!" The steward put down a dish he was passing, plunged over the rail...