Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaters and his 14-year-old son Charles. For three nights the party huddled miserably inside a barbed-wire stockade while icy rain beat down. Hunter Wright waited for skies to clear, said he: "They might catch cold and die." Then the lions were released to roam the underbrush, regain their native ferocity. Instead they sat howling mournfully in the mud outside the camp. Next day an hour's pelting with sticks & stones roused them to indignant roars, threatening lunges. Thereupon Hunter Wright, Son Charles and others gleefully shot the lions dead...
...Year Roosevelt's climb to the Presidency represented a physical triumph of the first order. For a decade he had fought a dogged fight to regain control over his paralyzed legs. Today the President-elect can walk in his braces, without crutch, stick or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, I guess the Presidency won't." The Man of the Year's attitude toward his affliction is one of gallant unconcern. After his November election he went to Warm Springs where he addressed others there taking...
...make no rash mistakes. He listened carefully to the astute Colonels Howe & House. He trusted hustling Jim Farley to line up the important West and Midwest. He appealed to and for the Forgotten Man without going so far off the deep end of demagoguery that he could not regain his balance among potent conservatives...
...stockholders in John R, Thompson Co. (restaurants and cafeterias in 36 cities) are John Daniel Hertz and Charles Alexander McCulloch who were good friends of the founder until he died in 1927. Last March President John R. Thompson Jr., 37, tried to get proxies sufficient to regain voting control but gave up and announced, "It was all due to a misunderstanding." Chicagoans felt that the Hertz-McCulloch group allowed him to remain as president for sentimental reasons. Last week he resigned, was succeeded by William Murphy Collins, 55, oldtime Chicago restaurant man who sold Philip Henrici's ("No Orchestral...
...ship," tacking her back & forth about 20°. With an unstabilized ship, tacking against a heavy sea would increase the roll. With gyros correcting her roll and tacking correcting her pitch a ship need not slow down in heavy weather. By her greater speed she will more than regain, according to Sperry tests, the time and distance she loses by tacking, estimated at about 15%. To make this clear to landlubbers. Sperry salts compare "stabilized tacking" to speeding over 115 mi. of boulevard instead of choosing to bump slowly over 100 mi. of cobblestones...