Word: plodders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tipperary Tim was being led to the paddock, English folk crowded to pat him. They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them...
...donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...
...defy all weighing and balancing with an eye to future usefulness. How often have contemporary judgments of youth shown the futility of the attempt! Many a young firebrand, after showing great promise, has drifted out of sight and has never been heard of more; many an obscure thinker and plodder has surprised an indifferent world with bursts of unsuspected power...