He won more than 100 Quarter-Midget features, earned two Midget championships, and was named United States Auto Club (USAC) Midget Series Rookie of the Year in 1995.
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After she prevailed in court, Blainey-Broker played three years of boys' hockey in the bantam, minor midget and midget divisions.
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I didn't have to worry about tourists taking photos of me, or having "midget midget" shouted at me in a bar, as had happened to me in the United States.
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Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short—a midget).
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Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short — a midget).
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" He later tweeted that the BuzzFeed News reporter is a "mind midget.
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Pavelski won championships at the midget, high school, junior, and college levels.
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"Midget Cough," the song where Action references Jim Abbott, has 150,303 views.
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I think she is a mental midget and an intellectual snake oil salesman.
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The output for quarter-midget cars, by comparison, is typically around five horsepower.
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It's not just something where it's pick up a midget and toss him.
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I can recall going and watching Tony race a midget at Ventura (Raceway).
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As the club's nickname, the Midget, might imply, it is hardly a snooty establishment.
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Drones, midget submarines and tunnelling commandos could deploy biological, chemical and even nuclear weapons.
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I was playing Midget AAA hockey and I was in this morning hockey program.
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And Bell is a former USAC Midget National champion with multiple wins at the facility.
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Goalies with the Greater Vancouver Comets, a female midget AAA hockey team from British Columbia.
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Don't look at them and think, "Oh you little midget, you're 5'2", what you got?
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My father is a midget of a man, shorter than my mother, and much quieter.
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"It might be the world's tallest midget, but it's in the lead," Mr. Burns said.
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This picture shows the recovery of a Japanese midget submarine abandoned during the Pearl Harbor attack.
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"After beating Diaz, Masvidal drank liquor, ate pizza, and called Conor McGregor a "f---ing midget.
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Some, however, will transition to full-size racecars, including midget cars, sprint cars and stock cars.
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The Terre Haute Quarter Midget Association, where Mr. Shipman is a volunteer flagman, is one of more than 70 racing clubs — many of whose members are drawn from the rural parts of the country — designed for the thousands of children, ages 5 to 0003, who race quarter-midget cars.
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And he's always, like when I mixed down Dead Midget on Stilts, I showed him that record first.
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A lot of heads know me from my [releases as Sumach,] Dead Midget on Stilts and Flamingo Gimpp.
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Mr. Gordon said in a phone interview that quarter-midget racers "absolutely" represent the future of the sport.
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For their part, quarter-midget officials insist that safety regulations are a top priority — and that they're effective.
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The Glamorous First Lady of Magic: The presser also included five male dancers, a midget and a white pony.
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"Should I get real midget-y?" he asked me, before calling for a long black sweater of some kind.
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"He says he has built an economic lion, when Rwanda is a midget in the region," Mr. Himbara said.
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For families whose children harbor racing aspirations, quarter-midget tracks offer one of the earliest possible introductions to motor sports.
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Speaking in gravelly, colloquial Arabic, he drags on a cigarette and insults Mr Sisi as a "midget" and a "disgrace".
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Most of his cars—a 1965 Triumph Herald, a 1968 Ford Thunderbird, a 1971 MG Midget, among others—have been convertibles.
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For young quarter-midget racers, basic skills like coordination and reaction time are still developing, as are the racers' musculoskeletal systems.
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Risks aside, another factor for many families is the financial cost, which can be prohibitive even at the quarter-midget level.
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"Beat him so badly that this midget gremlin won't even have a shot even with a trillion dollars," Mr. Menaker said.
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He's also apparently pretty into Peter Dinklage's character Tyrion Lannister, saying, "This little motherfucking midget is hilarious," in a separate video.
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About 2010 games into her midget triple-A season, Hayley Wickenheiser was pulled aside by her coach after getting off the bus.
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"When Masvidal turned up to the post UFC 244 media event, he drank liquor, ate pizza, and called Conor McGregor "a midget.
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He was a minuscule, ugly young man, a sort of midget-artist of indeterminate age in tight trousers and a loud shirt.
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It is also building an aircraft fleet that, though still a midget compared with FedEx's, will amount to 70 aircraft by 2021.
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JC, who's 4'8" ... used the slur while trying to explain -- to a black houseguest -- the difference between the words "midget" and "dwarf.
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She knew next to nothing about Nascar when she met Bob East, widely known in racing for building sprint cars and midget cars.
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The next hurdle was recruiting some of the best players in the country away from their high schools, prep schools and minor midget teams.
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He also wrote a memoir, originally published in 2002 as "Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam Costume," a reference to an aborted publicity stunt.
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The largest, of course, is the GoFundMe campaign started by Sylvie Kellington, the mother of a boy who plays on the Broncos' midget team.
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They had found the Ward, the destroyer that fired on and sank a Japanese midget submarine outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec.
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"While investors do not seem to care that earnings have been lower, the U.S. equity market remains the tallest midget in the crowd," Brady added.
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The 27-year-old was racing in the 39th Belleville Midget Nationals in Kansas when he made contact with another car and flipped several times.
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Last year it began running self-deprecating television ads, featuring young hires, aimed at closing the company's image gap of industrial giant but digital midget.
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Jorge Masvidal ate pizza, drank liquor, and called Conor McGregor "a f---ing midget" at a press conference after dominating Nate Diaz at UFC 244.
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Quarter-midget cars are powered by small one-cylinder engines, many of which have been repurposed from outdoor power equipment: lawn mowers, generators, concrete compactors.
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Daniel Ricklefs, a former combat lifesaver in the Army who volunteers as a track medic at the I-70 quarter-midget club in Greenville, Ill.
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Quarter-midget racing — so called because the cars resemble scaled-down versions of the exponentially more powerful midget-style racers — is part of a vast tradition of American auto racing, one that includes everything from Nascar and IndyCar to the less regulated world of short-track racing, an infamously dangerous corner of the sport that often serves as a next step for ambitious young racers.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is removing references to the term "midget" raisins from its regulations following a complaint from the Little People of America.
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Steele won back-to-back USAC Silver Crown championships in 2004 and 2005, and won the 2001 and 2003 Turkey Night Grand Prix midget car races.
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So went the jovial greetings at a Midget Squadron Yacht Club party last weekend, as the club members — all male — greeted Helen Salogub by her new title.
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Both midget and sprint cars are open-wheeled and have tremendous power-to-weight ratios that allow them to zip around short tracks, often made of dirt.
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Mounduix, who stands 4'8' tall, was explaining dwarfism, which he does not have, to Dayton when she asked if a "dwarf" and a "midget" are the same thing.
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Gio played in the 22014- to 216-year-old Junior Midget age group, the oldest of Mo Better's three teams to take the field in the 22014 season.
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A Pentagon report of 2015 talks of North Korean drones, midget-submarines and of commandos who may attack targets in South Korea "via suspected underground, cross-DMZ tunnels".
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In an ebullient "State of the Union" message to the sales force that October, Babich joked about hiring midget wrestlers to perform at the next national sales meeting.
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In March 2010, the South Korean navy ship called the Cheonan was sunk by what the South Korean military concluded was a torpedo fired by a midget submarine.
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FROM PEN: Learn The Process Behind Time Selecting The 100 Most Influential People Bottom line … MIDGET is offensive to me as well as most of the little people community.
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Farrelly, who was known as Midget although he was 5 feet 8 inches tall, was among the top surfers of the 1960s, when the sport gained in popularity worldwide.
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Clauson was a four-time United States Auto Club champion, twice in sprint and twice in midget, and his victory on Wednesday was his 112th career Auto Club win.
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Apparently this is a blood orange swiss buttercream and lemon cake but, if you ask me, it's three plates of prawn-flavoured Midget Gems stacked and ready for service.
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Speaking with the media after his win, Masvidal called Conor McGregor "a f---ing midget" and said even UFC's president, Dana White, knew he's too much man for McGregor.
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He started seventh in the first night of the Belleville Nationals but crashed in Turn 22010 after hitting the stalled midget of Morgan Frewaldt coming to the white flag.
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He was injured in 2011 at the Midget Orange Bowl, a Pop Warner championship held on a turf field before spectators with cheerleaders dancing and screaming coaches along the sidelines.
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Estimated price: $21000,212 - $21750,21000 Jimmy Knight built this roadster in 211928 to compete in world of "midget" racing---the term for smaller, more affordable versions of full-size race cars.
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Estimated price: $650,000 - $750,21750 Jimmy Knight built this roadster in 22 to compete in world of "midget" racing---the term for smaller, more affordable versions of full-size race cars.
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Most drivers specialize in one style of car, but Clauson competed in IndyCar, Nascar, sprint and midget races, among others, and he enjoyed his greatest successes in the last two.
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SURFACING For families whose children harbor racing aspirations, quarter-midget tracks offer one of the earliest possible introductions to motor sports — leading some children to race before they can read.
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Graphics ____ For families whose children harbor racing aspirations, quarter-midget tracks offer one of the earliest possible introductions to motor sports — leading some children to race before they can read.
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Even Iran has more than a dozen well-armed "midget" subs that hide in the shallows of the Persian Gulf, as well as three big Russian-made Kilo class diesel-electrics.
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Jordynn Scott, who raced quarter-midget cars out of Terre Haute from the age of 5 onward, transitioned to racing a modified car with more than 700 horsepower at age 16.
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Bryan Clauson, who was seriously injured in a vicious wreck in Saturday night's Belleville Midget Nationals, has died, it was confirmed on Monday in a press conference at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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" The changes stem from a 2013 petition filed by the Little People of America, which said it was "trying to raise awareness around and eliminate the use of the word 'midget.
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The only thing tying these two tracks together is the fact they're by Gnarly Davidson (CeeLo Green), portrayed in the video by a midget bearing a somewhat loose resemblance to the singer.
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She began skating at 5 and worked her way through the usual midget circuits, right up to the Junior Women's Hockey League before receiving a scholarship to the University of British Columbia.
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What she did not recognise was what he became as he spoke: a raving, ranting midget, foaming and roaring about the need for total war, and making the crowd roar back its approval.
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When my old band, Midget Fan Club, finally ended in 2010, I started fooling around with the idea of "going solo" but didn't actually start playing shows and seriously writing songs until 2013.
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Ms. Creighton's book includes the poignant story of a female midget musician from Mexico, nicknamed Chiquita, whose cruel business manager required her to play piano alongside a chimpanzee that also had musical training.
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JC, who stands 4'8" tall, was trying to explain the difference between the words "midget" and "dwarf" ... and told Bayleigh Dayton, who's black, it's like "gay and f***ot or ni**er and black.
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In fact, they're just building Scotland's first museum dedicated to the history of underwater warfare, with a World War II "midget submarine" as the star attraction, and they need to get it inside somehow.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In 2000, at 22 years old, Ben McAdoo had no plans to become a coach, not even in midget football, let alone in the N.F.L. His career game plan included law school.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world's first surfing champion, Australian Bernard 'Midget' Farrelly, lived just long enough to see his beloved sport accepted into the Olympics before he passed away at the age of 71 on Sunday.
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Still, parents of quarter-midget racers are accustomed to a certain line of questioning: How can youngsters, some of whom can't read and are just beginning to dress themselves, be permitted to enter motor sport races?
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Kwong starred for a midget-hockey provincial championship team, then joined a team in Trail, British Columbia, known as the Smoke Eaters, who rewarded their players by getting them well-paying jobs at the local smelter.
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We broke the story ... cops say "Bridget The Midget" -- as she's known in the industry -- stabbed her BF, Jesse James, in the leg during their heated exchange, and she's been ordered to stay away from him.
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Little person porn star Bridget Powers -- who goes by "Bridget the Midget" in her movies -- got in a nasty fight that ended with her in handcuffs and her BF with a stab wound ... in the leg.
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The comedian skewered Hart during a portion of his stand-up set at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston Friday night, calling him a "midget with a regular ni**a's head" and a "punk bitch" ... among other insults.
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They share their thoughts on everything from dealing with dry skin to political correctness (someone worried about using the word "midget" for a dance instructor is advised that "it's safer to call him a very small person").
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For the ceremony, Mr. Treutle called Ms. Salogub before the members — "And now, the first woman in the 116-year history of the Midget Squadron" — and Madam Commodore received a salute from each of the past commodores present.
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Agosta has found alternatives, such as playing for the Vancouver Police Department's team, practicing with a local Midget AAA team of boys ages 63 to 17, and training with a skills coach at the University of British Columbia.
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The best we could do was to arrange the dignified return of the remains of some North Korean commandos who had intentionally blown themselves up in a midget submarine that had become disabled during an infiltration of the South.
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"Oh it was terrifying, absolutely terrifying," said Mr. Gordon, who was recently voted into the Nascar hall of fame, when asked what it was like to watch his daughter, Ella, turn her first laps in a quarter-midget car.
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" Jolé then explains why she's so heated in a confessional: "All of these women claim that they hate the word midget and everything that it represents, but when Christy makes a disgusting video celebrating that disgusting word, I'm the bad guy.
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Russia has been aggressively staking out its claims there for more than a decade, using midget submarines to plant flags on the ocean floor as part of its claim to some half a million square miles of undersea continental shelf.
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"They didn't want the girls to be there in a lot of cases—parents from other teams or even boys from other teams that I played against in bantam or midget triple-A when the stakes were higher," she recalls.
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Even from those early laps he turned trying out a quarter-midget on a short track near his family's Corpus Christi home, the elementary-aged Labonte left no doubt about his competitive frame of mind or his talent behind the wheel.
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The Revolutionary Guards fields a fleet of missile-armed speedboats and midget submarines it can deploy against US military ships or commercial tankers to disrupt the flow of oil in Gulf waters, where Washington says Tehran attacked six tankers last year.
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At other times, though, they feel like barbs and jabs; Ebbing, Missouri, is the kind of town where people sneer at "political correctness" and still feel comfortable throwing around the term "midget" to refer to a character played by Peter Dinklage.
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Smiley (real name Jason Thompson) cut his teeth in a punk band called Midget Fan Club for a good 12 years before going solo and deciding to settle down in Gainesville and bring his booze-laden fruit way of life to the masses.
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If the reminder of Justin Wilson's fatal accident nearly a year ago at this oval track isn't enough, this will be the series' first official gathering since three-time Indianapolis 500 starter Bryan Clauson succumbed to injuries suffered in a USAC midget race Aug.
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While seated, the most notable element of his appearance was hardly noticeable; only when he stood to introduce himself did it become clear that he is short, almost childlike, in stature, a characteristic that earned him the nickname "the midget" from Russian political operatives.
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"Bryan Clauson combined his passion and enthusiasm for grass-roots racing with a God-given talent that made him the favorite to win every time he got in a midget or sprint car," Doug Boles, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, said in a statement.
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He was a three-time USAC National Midget champion (2010, 2011, 2015), three-time USAC National Drivers champion (2010, 2011, 2012), two-time USAC National Sprint Car champion (2012, 2013), and wins in both the Chili Bowl (2014) and Turkey Night Grand Prix (2009, 2010).
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To explore this question, the researchers analyzed data from two injury surveillance studies in 22020-20212 and 2013-2016 that included child and youth players in Pee Wee (11-12 year-olds), Bantam (13-143 year-olds) and Midget (15-17 year-olds) divisions.
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One of the players states in the documentary that growing up it felt like there was only two options for Little People to be involved in the athletic world: the circus or "midget wrestling" (a term now considered both offensive and banned by the Little People community).
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IT WAS a poignant moment in mid-April when a Japanese Soryu-class submarine sailed into Sydney harbour—the first visit by a Japanese undersea vessel since three of the country's midget submarines raided the harbour and killed 21 allied sailors during the second world war.
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In the 1930s, well before I was born, he announced motorcycle races on cinder tracks, including at Yankee Stadium, and open-cockpit midget-car races at places like the Nutley Velodrome in Nutley, N.J. It was a steeply banked board track — in effect, a giant wooden bowl — built for bicycle races.
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V. Putin, meanwhile, hoists papier–mâché "barbells" while ruthlessly pressing his campaign of praising the vain rookie U.S. President D. Trump at every turn—a transparent Kremlin attempt to shut out life-of-the-party Kim Jong-un by making him seem, by contrast, like an unfunny midget warlord who feeds uncles to dogs.
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At Bonhams, a 1948 MG TC Midget sports car with just 28,000 miles on the clock inspired applause when it sold for $112,000, three times the estimate, while at RM Sotheby's, one of 20 early-production 1961 E-Type Jaguar fixed-head coupes with much-admired outside hood latches (yes, it gets that geeky) sold over estimate for $720,000.
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