Word: ous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked which he thought more strem: ous, football or boxing, Sharkey answered. "I think playing football is hardier than boxing, and I was fullback on the Navy team A boxer can run around the ring and then rest, but there's no rest in football Besides college training is stricter than a boxer...
...Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...
...Giving the blood isn't painful", he said. "All that is done is to stick a needle into the donor's arm and pump ous as much of the fluid as is needed. About a pint can be taken with perfect safety and a quart has been removed without ill effects, but if the larger amount is taken from some persons they notice had symptoms, such as tiring easily and getting short of breath. If they drink a good deal of water and rest completely for a day or so they will recover entirely...
...Communists who have in the past succeeded in bringing much disrepute upon the trades union movement by advocating hasty action. Thus, it was believed that the number of industrial conflicts will be reduced, but when they become inevitable, it seems that under the new ruling more strenu ous struggles will result...