Word: readier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star. All the Argentine mounts were superlatively swift, a little easier to handle than the U. S. ponies, though perhaps that was partly due to the way they were ridden. Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...
...began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...large; for Harvard men possess a proved ability to make themselves heard. The Metro-Goldwyn Company is surely undertaking a very delicate task, is playing with fire, in truth. But if the production is a success as a true interpretation of life at Harvard, no one will be readier to extend felicitations than Harvard...
...book written for the headier, readier, unsteadier sheep at the intellectual outskirts of the Roman fold, False Prophets will be found strong tonic by the sheep of other folds. For the ranging wolves of Agnosticism it will afford mettlesome opposition...
Enchantress ever, the moon has from the first inspired ambiguous conjecture, leaving most men readier to impute to malevolence her obscure government of rhythms in nature than to find benign her whiteness, her remote hauteur. "She is wise," they said, "only to confound; her beauty maketh mad." Yet gardeners, and others whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot...