Word: sledding
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...Anti-Saloon League replied by declaring that the Senator had "abused" it, and by intimating that he was "interested in the return of booze." "I will go sled length in showing up the kind of men who are running the League While I have not exactly made up my mind to run next year, the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League has pushed me a long way toward an affirmative decision. .... The Anti-Saloon League is a powerful organization. It raises hundreds of millions of dollars to bulldoze Representatives and Senators into carrying out their will. The Devil also...
...Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital...
...wild, wild West: "The girls would enjoy coasting more if Yearsley would fix a place for their feet on his sled...
...With such science on board, they scarce can fail to reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and this party ganged the same way. An unfortunate rock intervenes, and they separate, - the gallant leader measured the shortest distance between the sled and a neighboring tree; the youthful prodigy described the arc of a great circle and landed in a snow-bank; the large gentleman remained stationary, remarking, " This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I"; the last, describing a parabolical curve, an ellipse, two hyperbolas...
...more sled remains at the top of the hill, a battered old hulk, handed down from time immemorial; inscribed on it in faded letters is, "Long live the ancient customs!" A gray-haired, venerable-looking person sits on it, and looks round for some friend to give him a shove. But the rest are gone, and, a kind impulse moving me, I rush out from behind the trees, saying, "I'll help you, thou guardian angel of the student." At the first word the sled and occupant vanish, I find myself alone, calmly resting in a snow-bank, my heels...