Word: phalanxes
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Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
Premier Baldwin and his Cabiinet represented the Government's phalanx against former Premier Macdonald and J. H. Thomas (Labor) and Lloyd George (Liberal). Mr. George heckled the Government at every turn, but ap peared to have become a relatively impotent political busybody...
...National Association of Schoolmasters constitutes, as its name would indicate, an old defensive phalanx of masculine supremacy in pedagogy. Meeting last week at Hull, this body passed resolutions to fight the women's "irrational" policy as relentlessly as the women were pursuing it. One speaker drew a dreadful picture of what would happen to the nation if wage equality were granted: young women would not have to marry.* Another fighting male explained: "It is a bold young man who today proposes marriage to a woman teacher, because he knows he will have to suffer adverse financial and social changes...
...wind was blowing, touched with smoke from many autumn bonfires, and the fragrance of the incense from the swinging censers mingled in the air with the smell of burning leaves, and blew back over the moving column of priests, over the officers of the council, over the richly vested phalanx of Bishops who brought up the rear. The thurifers entered the Church. There was a rustle as the multitude stood up. Then candles were lit, hymn books opened, and to the thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes, the chanting voices of a choir of monks and the solemn...
...sequel has shown, however, that religious fanatics are bent on securing the full measure the law allows. The demon, Evolution, is to be banished to the outer darkness while the solid Bryan phalanx is to remain master of the inner darkness...