Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent solo westward across the Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela...
...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
...fast Millers, led by Billy Arnold, 1930 winner, 1931 leader until his Miller-Hartz crashed and burnt, led for the first laps. Arnold crashed again at 150 mi. after setting five new records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line...
...Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton, N. Y., Press. When people used to ask what Swamproot was good for, Mr. Kilmer would grunt : "Good...
...intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly. U. S. turfmen expected that because of Phar Lap's prestige this method of training might gain popularity; that because of his death, owners of notable racehorses might be reluctant to risk sending them abroad...