Word: spar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic in a catboat. At the moment of wreck he suddenly realized the folly of his romanticism and grabbed a drifting spar. At daybreak he was rescued by contemptuous fishermen. And so to bed with a cold and a fright, the disillusioned young...
...natural, therefore, that sugarmen should look forward to 1929 with misgivings. Facing the certainty of huge Javanese production, the probability of an unlimited Cuban supply, sugarmen saw little reason to hope for high price levels. They could cling to no solid, saving spar. But they could clutch, if they liked, at either of two straws...
...What I said in that article was the plain, unvarnished, God's truth and I am going to stand back of it to the last spar. The truth is that they are spending money like hell and getting little...
...Wolgast has not forgotten that fight either. He lives on the Pacific Coast with friends, ring figures of 20 years ago. Every morning he begins to spar. Pretty soon he thinks he will have to meet another champion. In the bright sun, he dances around a shadow ducking, weaving, driving his long arms to hit a body that is not there. He has invented a new punch to use in his next championship bout...
...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...