Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day last week six tax strategists, Democrats and Republicans, sweated be hind closed doors, trying to write a tax bill acceptable to everybody. At week's end a pay-as-you-go tax bill at last seemed in sight...
...Long Island's traditional Derby preview. Few days before, in a tune-up race (his 1943 debut) on a sloppy track, he had proved that he could run in any kind of going. This time, against the cream of the three-year-old crop and despite a gashed hind leg, he really showed his class. From the time he entered the backstretch, where he overtook Blue Swords, his chief rival, he made the race a runaway. His time (1:43 flat) was only f of a second slower than the track record for a mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...other signers of the letter are Gilbert Murray, Regins Professor of Greek, Boars Hill Oxford, Eric Maclagan, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and A. M. Hind, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum...
...Sample stanza: And every farmer in the land Up on his hind legs will stand And the laborer at his job And the soldier...
Three cheers and a huzza for Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...