Word: juggernauts
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...statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
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...Yale's fourth down on Harvard's 17-yard line when Albie Booth, still limping slightly from a muscle bruise, ran out from the bench. The wild crowd quieted ?would he run or kick? When Douglas blocked a low wavering boot that got nowhere, Mays' and Devens' juggernaut spurts made a Harvard touchdown possible. Then Douglas blocked another of Booth's kicks and Barry Wood slanted over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods...
...years 1880 to 1910, or the years 1910 to 1929?" In the early primeval times of Big Business the Elder Morgan was simply the biggest, most voracious brontosaurus. In the present years of Titanic Business it is the Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that...
Cacodyl isocyanide, new, vicious compound of poisonous cyanogen, kills instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...