Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend too much time popping neatly up and down over fences to have either the speed or the stamina for a long day in the field...
Much attention was attracted to the Japanese style of swimming at the recent Olympic games, held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1932. At that time, the Nippon team, a hitherto rather mediocre squad, showed a sudden speed and stamina which swept all opposition before it and gained the swimming crown for the Japanese...
...building up and, as is the case in many instances, the rebuilding of character and stamina that has begun to deteriorate over a period of enforced idleness and hanging about street corners is not "useless." This alone would be worth the effort the President has made in launching the Corps, even if Corporal Baker's assertion regarding the work the Conservation Corps is doing were an accurate statement...
...getting champion of this basic principle of world recovery, President-elect Fraser faces a battling, buffeting year, will need all the stamina packed into his tough, square-shouldered frame. Typical of direct, common-sense Fraser methods was the Bank's settlement last week of the issue of "double taxation" with the City of Basle. Radical aldermen have demanded that the city pry into the private income of each employe of the Bank (already taxed in his home country) and tax it again in Basle. The Bank retorted by offering the city a lump sum payment of 50,000 Swiss...
When his conferees got back to Washington, Democrats swarmed about them with hot protests. Utah's Senator King exclaimed: "It looks as if the Democrats haven't got the courage and stamina to fulfill their platform pledges and make the promised 25% reduction in expenditures." Senators Long and Connally vowed that they would never support tax legislation which did not also raise surtaxes on larger incomes. Representative Snell, Republican leader in the House, took advantage of the confusion to remark: "The new Democratic motto is 'Soak the poor.' Last session it was 'Soak the rich...