Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those he keeps are more than likely to go places, thanks to the fact that Ben Jones is a first-class manager as well as a smart conditioner of horses. Plenty of other stables have good stock, conditioned to a fine edge, but never make money because the trainers run their animals in competition that is over their heads...
Next season it was Armed. So small as a two-year-old that he was gelded "to make him grow some," Armed didn't see much of the race track until he was four. Then he began to take his bows. Still racing, Armed has won more money ($782,175) than any other gelding ever...
...Make a Point. Aristide Pierre Maurin was born 71 years ago on a farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
Peter Maurin (rhymes with bore in) studied because he wanted to teach, for he regarded teaching as his spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...