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Contracting severe leg cramps at the 12 mile mark in the North Medford Club 20 mile race Saturday, the cross-country captain managed to last out 19 1/2 miles by pure grit. Overcome by exhaustion at this point, he wavered from the track and collided with a tree. After recovery at a nearby house, the verteran harrier announced that henceforth he would stick to the two mile...
...birth the physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment, Dr. Carlson saic in Detroit last week, is the removal of fear and shame from the cripple's mind...
...slip between its fingers, debated whether it had been wise to cheer so loudly for the Lytton Report, blaming Japan directly for the invasion of Manchuria. Wrote the Times: ''Whatever may be thought of the origins of the new state, it is impossible not to admire Japanese grit and organizing capacity. . . . Countries which have trading interests in the Far East . . . must not delay too long in making up their minds how to reconcile their trading activities in Manchuria with the principle of non-recognition...
This ancient bit of Federal law last week turned up as grit in the gear box of the Government's whole farm relief program. Did it mean that the Treasury could not pay Domestic Allotment bounties to farmers for plowing up cotton and cutting wheat acreage, without first deducting any debts these farmers happened to owe the Government? If so, some $200,000,000 in bounties would never leave the Treasury and farmers would get only a batch of receipted bills on their Federal loans. Or were bounties not "claims" against which farm loans could be collected...
...established and thoroughly organized, needs to be furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount to more than $5,000,000 per year. Three cockfighting periodicals-Grit and Steel, Game Fowl News, Feathered Warrior-have a combined circulation of about 15,000. Second-rate gamecocks can be bought for $20 and more. First-rate gamecocks are given away or stolen, almost never sold...