Word: headworks
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Indoor polo, as played at the Commonwealth Armory which is only exceeded in dimensions by that of West Point, is capable of providing the spectator with fast action, beautiful headwork, and spectacular horsemanship such as is impossible to witness in any other sport...
...will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...
...principle of good tennis, Tilden believes the first rule is never give your opponent the shot he likes to play. As a rule in tennis, the man who depends upon headwork will defeat a man who plays by natural instinct alone. When his game is off, he has another resource to fall back upon, whereas the natural athlete...
...phenomenally popular The Art of Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the longing to live happy and the dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such...
...poor quality of Harvard's playing semed greater in contrast to the snappy fielding and good headwork that characterized the Purple team...