Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seaton Pippin's superiority was not approached in other classes at last week's show. For the last few years judges at American horse shows have awarded most of the saddle class prizes to Kentucky-bred horses, a procedure that stirs lively opposition in devotees of the British thoroughbred strain, which used to win. Thoroughbreds are built for racing and hunting as well as show. Slightly crossed with standard-bred horses, they make excellent saddlers. Ken-tucky-bred horses have been fined down to a mettlesome nervousness highly impressive in the ring but unsuited, so their critics claim, to hardier...
Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper...
...drive respectively. Along in February the swimmer finds that as a result of the floor work before entering the water he is not affected by the prolonged effort of the season. The efficacy of the system was proved last year when none of the swimmers broke under the strain of a hard schedule...
...instrument they found in the immigration of the Koreans to "colonize" the country. During the past three months the clash of the Koreans and the Chinese at Wanpaoshan, the anti-Chinese massacres in Korea, and the Nakamura case happened in succession, putting the Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations under great strain. But as China refrained from any hostile actions, Japan could find no excuse for further aggression. Suddenly her brutal force befell China with a wrath and ferocity hardly tolerable by humanity...
...meet the annual losses. Last year Mr. Eckstein paid $139,000 out of his own pocket. This summer's season will cost him nearly $188,000. One can only agree with him when he says: "It is certain that no one man should carry indefinitely the burden and strain of the artistic direction and in addition contribute from his own resources 67 per cent. of the deficit...