Word: sinew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against a $1.50 dividend requirement. Although the second half is the harder one for motor companies, GM enters the final stretch with working capital of $328,000,000 against $290,000,000 a year ago. If working capital is the backbone of a company, cash is its sinew. GM has $245,000,000 deposited in banks and invested in Government bonds...
...ties the Ambassador passed with ever-increasing fervor and sincerity to the theme of Motherhood. "We have recently had in London," he cried, "a body of American travelers representing a cross section of the American people, representing the heart and soul of the American people, representing the bone and sinew of the American people and the proud attitude of the American people?a body of travelers not self-invited, with their minds occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first and last visit...
...fire under seven feet of gypsum in a Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered 900 man-things, including scores of long fighting darts, feathers bound with sinew (probably a religious piece), a white stone knife, gypsum pendants...
...about the longest distance that a conditioned athlete can run in a single burst of full speed, it has long been the most important yardstick in U. S. track sports. European sprinters dash 100 metres (109.39 yds.). Successive generations of runners have succeeded, by study as well as sinew, in whittling down the yardstick infinitesimally. In 1906 the world's record for 100 yards was set at 9.6 sec. Last May Eddie Tolan, short, spectacled Negro student in the University of Michigan, ran 100 yards in 9.5 sec. in the Western Conference championships at Evanston, Ill. Last week...