Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver-headed Paul Vories McNutt last week reared up on his fine hind legs, revealed that his status as 1940'$ leading If man is causing him considerable pain. Addressing Indiana University footballers, Paul McNutt touched on stories that he is 1) a stalking horse for Mr. Roosevelt; 2) a club wherewith the President can cow Jim Farley, who would rather have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt...
...invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...
...centuries of bull-headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...
...year, which were more useful to the fire department than his personal services. Said he: "When I was young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...
...Thoroughbred stallions and rugged Cannuck mares, was developed to answer the late-18th Century demand for a "fast-walking" horse to pull the rich man's buggy. A pacer moves both right legs and both left legs in unison. A trotter moves its right front leg and left hind leg in unison. Of the 10,000 Standardbred racers on U. S. tracks, 70% are trotters, 30% pacers...