Word: furrowings
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...their chateaux, they unpacked their luggage, recovered their land-legs, settled down to a fortnight of final conditioning. The swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames...
...Horse. Eleven years ago Master Robert II first touched hoof in Ireland. He promised well, but failed. Finally he was put to work and many was the furrow he ploughed. It is even told that he was several times seen drawing the laborious milkwagon. Still he maintained his aristocratic air and once, by chance, was led to the hunting field...
...less remarkable is the story of Mac Donald's struggle with his own party. Disavowed by all except a handful of his colleagues, he was content during the war to plough the lonely furrow. The coming of peace brought reconciliation but also new battles. For the next four years he was engaged in a struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been...
...said that Leibnitz was the last man in the world to "know everything". With the piling up of information it has become impossible for any one to take "all human knowledge for his province", and the reaction has led men to keep their eyes on their own particular furrow without a glance for the next beside them...
...Princess was named Boston Evening Transcript. She was not a young princess, but she was not a young Princess, but she was vigorous and well-preserved. She could not understand the cowardice of her champions. They might have faltered, she reflected, had she ever allowed a thought to furrow her bleak brow. But she was sure she had never done that. Had she been a wanton, she thought, her plight might be explainable. But had she not, year after year, proclaimed to the world her immaculate chastity...