Word: stalling
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...Jockey Club cast the palm to Zev, asking My Own to stand ready in his stall lest a substitute be needed...
...horse bought by a man of Paris, Ky., from a farmer of Jefferson City, Mo., disappeared from his new owner's farm. Two weeks later came a letter from Jefferson City saying that the horse had reappeared in its own stall, 500 miles away...
According to the records of the Loan Desk, 121 159 books were lent for home, reading room, study, or stall use during the year 1920-21, in addition to those used for overnight reference work in the general and lower reading rooms, which amounted to over 25,000 volumes. These figures do not include the unrecorded use of books in the reading rooms and the stacks, which cannot be computed...
According to the records of the Loan Desk, 114,219 books were lent for home, reading room, study, or stall use during the year 1919-20. These figures do not include the unrecorded use of books in the reading rooms and the stacks, which cannot be computed...
...possess before he can hope to find a career in the service: one is "pull," and the other is a private income. Added to this the uncertainty of being retained when a change in political power occurs in Washington, the man who hopes to advance on merit alone has stall chance of success...