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Word: runnerup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Almost as Grand National | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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