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...Domineering Sex. Though more vulnerable, the male surpasses the female in every test of physical capacity except those requiring fine, coordinated movements (e.g., sewing, buttoning, dressing, etc.). No woman has ever equaled men's records in any athletic activity. Even in horse racing, stallions are faster: only one mare has won the Derby (Regret, 1915)-and she had a big weight advantage...
...afternoon in August the ship had arrived at the Naval ammunition depot on Mare Island to take on a cargo of explosives. A division of loaders (105 men)-all of whom had been at Port Chicago-were mustered for the job. They fell in, shuffled a few steps, stopped. All but eleven of them refused to work...
Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
...Passes started traveling in his bassinette. Born in Chicago (1896), he was taken to Mexico City by his parents the same year. Since then, he has covered every continent except Australia, on every conveyance from a Volga River steamer to a dromedary-and very often on Shank's mare. Meanwhile he has published 18 books. (Best known: U.S.A., a three-panel novel of U.S. life and character circa World...
...polls. A few days before the election, Dubliners seemed more interested in Eire's current hubbub over venereal disease than in politics. But the Irish misjudged the Irish. On election day some 65% of the eligible voters managed to get to the polls-by donkey cart, shanks' mare, even horse-drawn mourning coaches...