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FLEET greyhounds vie for speed records as they pursue the "electric hare" of a
new racing outfit, designed by an English inventor and recently successful in
tests at Beddington. Though in design it resembles the standard race tracks that
have ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... electric furnace an apparatus for getting very high temperatures by means of
an electric current; electric guitar a guitar with an electrical amplifying device;
electric hare a dummy animal worked by electricity for racing greyhounds to
chase; ...
3
A Gentle Jesuit: Philip Caraman, SJ, 1911-1998
The reviewer named his piece 'The Electric Hare', and likened Greene to 'the
electric hare whom the racing dogs are not meant to catch'. He added that the
authors of the study, Kenneth Allott and Miriam Farvis, were 'as greyhounds,
efficient ...
4
Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights ...
It suggests that real sportsmen stayed loyal to coursing, while the soft “betting
boys forsake the real thing for the safety of the less idiosyncratic electric hare and
the comfort of a stadium” (Copold 1996, 18; see also Clapson 1992, chap. 6).
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A Bit of a Flutter: Popular Gambling and English Society, C. ...
Chapter 6 From coursing and flapping to the electric hare: dog racing in England
to 1960 From its origins in coursing and flapping in the nineteenth century, to the
introduction of the big electric stadia from 1926, cruelty, corruption and ...
6
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century
Local authorities forbade dog racing in public parks because it created a
nuisance, and because it was a medium for informal betting and gambling. The
flapping track, however, marginalised by the introduction in 1926 of the electric
hare, ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... typically a porV- table one for domestic use. electric guitar 7noun a guitar with
a built-in pickup or pickups which convert sound vibrations into electrical signals
for amplification. electric hare 7noun see HARE. electrician 7noun a person who
...
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Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English
Think of their children, as maddened and hungry as they are, as unavailing as
they are, heads lowered, necks stretched, mouths open, minds charred, hearts
bursting; and of their children's children; and of me, the electric hare, flying. Thus
...
Jacqueline Bardolph, André Viola, Jean-Pierre Durix, 2001
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The Guide Dogs Book of Amazing Dog Tales!
Schooling was achieved at the local track after the electric hare. Emma loved it
and ran with all her usual enthusiasm. At the races, it was a different matter. She
still ran well, but the others ran better. In truth, she was being set a task that was ...
The mock enemy plane, nicknamed the "electric hare," is run swiftly around the
track while gunners in mobile turrets pepper it. Members of the Royal Air Force
give their "electric hare" a start on its circular track, carrying model plane as a
target ...
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'Mary Lou McDonald talked like you, Sorcha, until Sinn Féin got their …
The electric hare flies past us and the dogs burst out of the traps and Sorcha – probably without even hearing herself – goes, “Oh my God, don't ... «Irish Times, 一月 15»
Derby County: Steve Nicholson on John Brayford's return to the iPro
My former colleague, the late Gerald Mortimer, once likened Brayford to the electric hare at a greyhound track as he belted up and down the ... «Derby Telegraph, 九月 14»
At home on hurling's holy ground
We all stand there imaging the sight of Mullane bursting out onto Walsh Park like an electric hare but with no team behind him. It would be good ... «Irish Examiner, 七月 14»
Why the NFL matters to Wembley
The new Wembley, opened in 2007, may have left the dogs and the electric hare behind but it is no different in its need to stage more than just ... «BBC Sport, 九月 13»
Days when racing fans used to go to the dogs
By 6.30pm (the start of the first race) the electric hare begins to whirl around the track, as it passes the 'traps' six dogs hurtle out in chase of it. «WalesOnline, 三月 10»
Great leaps of our imagination
JA McKee took over the design and built the OD car in 1920 but it, too, failed to sell and he went on to develop the electric hare for greyhound ... «Belfast Telegraph, 三月 10»
Scoring a first for Ireland's sports venues
"For a very large number of those present, it was the first experience they had of the electric hare," a reporter wrote. It was a crowd record when ... «BBC News, 十一月 09»
