Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relative value of might against right, of physical prowess against spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...
...humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature'; so is Glava, and her nurse talks in an Irish dialect." It sounds a thoroughly bad book, yet she counsels people to read...
...this stage of the game, entered Professor F. F. Brooks with an instrument capable of locating gold, which cost only ?15. By sticking a spear into the mud at the bottom of the sea, the presence of gold was indicated on a galvanometer. The Professor's contrivance changed failure into success. In 1921, 100 bars of bullion were recovered; in 1922, 900 bars; in 1923, 11,050 bars. Operations this season were to make a clean job of it, and salvage was small. All the precious metal that went down with the Laurentic, except for a small amount...
...ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
...Greenidge and Carpenter, the remaining two Harvard athletes to place on Saturday. Carpenter took third place in the discus with a throw of 133 feet 9 1-2 inches, nine feet better than his best heave a year ago. And Greenidge, placing fourth in the javelin, threw his spear 176 feet 5 1-8 inches, a remarkable improvement over his distance last year,--166 feet 10 inches...