Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter...
...aspired to complete independence. . . . They accepted the Free State [equivalent to 'dominion status'] as an alternative to the renewal of war." In Dublin just as Finance Minister Sean Macentee was about to promulgate the tariffs authorized by the Dail last week "he collapsed in his home from strain and was ordered to bed for several days by his doctor" while his undersecretaries did the promulgating...
...descendant of the wild bulls that roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones and defectives are fought by novilleros (novices); full-grown bulls...
...gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic, Eastman's style of running is in character. He contradicts the Indian maxim which says: "White man, body make legs go; red man, legs make body go." His shoulders lilt with his stride but his body does not move and strain, his glasses never wobble on his nose. As Indians are supposed to do, he toes in slightly and, unlike most fast runners, tracks in an absolutely straight line. Eastman lost none of his prestige by losing one race last week. Coaches who saw him breaking other runners' records earlier this...
...high time to declare in favor of some modern method of conducting our National Conventions. . . . Nominating a candidate in June brings him before the electorate . . . for four solid months. It requires a man of great vigor and great bodily strength to stand the physical strain of it. . . . The conventions should occur about the first week in September...