Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shape of Italy is a conqueror's boot, and, just across the Adriatic from the "heel" lies, appropriately that sharp spur-wheel, Albania, with which II Duce prods the Balkans (TIME...
Meantime, the New York World and other newspapers tried, by featuring the hunts in large headlines, to spur some humane or public-spirited person of wealth to preserve the finest-herd of wild buffalo left in the country. Since the hunts were first announced some months ago, Governor Dern of Utah had received protests from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Nichols of Boston, the American Humane Society; but could only reply, "Antelope Island and the buffalo herd are privately owned...
...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...
Intellectual England is indeed fortunate in possessing a dismal prophet Dean Inge's repeated reminders that the advance of civilization is by no means inevitable may be just the spur which the national genius needs to ensure progress...
Rooster In Washington, D. C., a rooster kicked a blacksmith in the kneecap with his spur, causing paralysis...