Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into its stride. The ground below the trees becomes alive with tigers, lions, zebras, waterbucks, crocodiles and savage dwarfs. Tarzan is a match for all of them. When a member of the Parker expedition shoots him in the head, he is too tough to mind it and shows his stamina by immediately strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives his yodel in a loud voice and advances on the dwarf village followed...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
...Said Gabby Street: "I'm looking forward to the pleasure and the profit, too." Privately he added: "Brooklyn has possibilities of being the most dangerous club in the league. Even the Reds and Phillies shape up as teams that can go places. In the end it will be stamina and steadiness that will win. That's where I think we have the edge...
...best field of the last three years. Tall Frank Shields, now 21 and heavier than a year ago, was the favorite. George Lott Jr. of Chicago was playing badly. The dark horse of the tournament was Gregory Mangin of Newark, a graceful player but one without abundant stamina, who has been playing tournament and Davis Cup tennis for six years without winning any sort of national championship. In the final, between Shields and Mangin, Shields seemed to have the match well in hand with a lead of 5-2 in the first set. He became rattled by close line decisions...
...advanced age of 23, is a senior at Pottstown, Pa., High School. A year ago most experts would have selected Spitz as a sure member of the Olympic team but very few would have chosen Gene Venzke, a tenacious miler, seasoned in road races that develop stamina rather than speed, celebrated for a long smooth stride and a tendency to come in second. When he finally won the Columbian mile at the end of last year's indoor season in 4 min. and 14! sec., observers began to see Venzke's promise. But no one, with the possible...