Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President celebrated two anniversaries, those of 1) the death of Polish General Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
...crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...
...college. Biggest feat so far for this crack wrestler occured curlier in the season when he came up against Charlie Tell, Princeton's massive all-American football player. Though he had a weight advantage of some 45 pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which feeling run so high that for a moment the two grapplers forgot it was wrestling and not boxing that they were...
...that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern man has no better skull, no better brain. Just a cave man, more or less trained." Shaken, but not to his roots, George goes off with temporarily furrowed...
Interminable tadpole, inexsuperable brute...