Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Army Engineer Corps, quit that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could speedily dig out traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section of the main line washed out by the Johnstown flood. At 38 he was jumped over a dozen heads to the job of General Manager West of Pittsburgh. When the Pennsylvania bought the dilapidated Baltimore & Ohio, Leonor Loree was sent in as president...
Cockfighting is conducted in "mains" of seven or more individual fights. Bettors wager on either the fights or the main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail...
Gamefowl in the U. S. belong to three main strains: Old English, Oriental and Modern English, a combination of Old English and Oriental. There are more than 250 variations of the three strains, with names like Crazy Snakes, Kansas Sluggers, Gordon Games, Mortgage Lifters, Meal Tickets. Roughhouse Blues. Cockers also belong to three main types. In such pits as "The Sag" in Chicago, disreputable cockers hold ill-conducted contests between second-rate birds. A larger class of cockers are poultry breeders, farmers, country folk who raise gamefowl for profit, pit them at well-advertised meets such as the Orlando tournament...
...satirist of U. S. civilization he was a romancer and writer of romantic verse of the also-ran variety. The unromantic world, which dampens many high enthusiasms, turned his to hate. Because he was a good hater and because he gave a name to two U. S. phenomena- Main Street and Babbitt-that were crying for a name, the public finally applauded him and prizes came his way. But Sinclair Lewis is still, as he has always been, a romantic, an enthusiast. Though cynics say that if you want sympathy you had better look for it in the dictionary, Author...
...main drawback to an inflation of the currency is the fact that it is a process difficult to control, and disastrous in its effects if it be carried too far. Examples of this are all too painfully presented by the events in the Confederacy toward the close of the Civil War, and by the complete collapse of the mark in Germany after the World War. Besides this danger, there is the fact that the present potential currency of the nation is not all in circulation. The banks have not issued all the money they are entitled to, simply because there...