Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination]! Let your shouts ring out when I unfurl our banner (hoisting it). Soon strikes the hour of supreme sacrifice for our Motherland...
...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
...Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself a champion of honest government...
...history is to be readily comprehended, the mastery of regional geography is of prime necessity; one is naturally the direct complement of the other. Yet, whereas history is read and inwardly digested by scholars in all walks of life, geographical truths, which in contrast ring out their utter simplicity, are sadly neglected. Perhaps it is because of their relatively simple nature that they are regarded as unimportant for maturer minds; when one becomes a man, one must put away childish things...
...afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring...