Word: spartan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thermopylae, a Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the Duke of Brunswick's German forces...
...bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...
Italics have to be put on Chrysler earnings because of its Spartan depreciation policy. In the first half of 1937, on sales of $409,688,254, write-off to depreciation was $9.952,822. In the first half of 1939, on sales down to $342,788,293, Chrysler's write-off was upped even further to $11,311,840. Result: its half-year earnings amount to 11.5% of the assets on its books. Further result: a clean capital structure, written-off assets, low costs-all of which promise that if business gets better Chrysler profits will pyramid, if it gets...
...loving former Governor James Graves Scrugham. remembers seeing once, in the high Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham...
Many a tearful child has been told of the Spartan boy who hid a fox under his shirt, never even winced when the fox bit him and kept on biting him, finally fell dead, still with a dead pan. Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked...