Word: taming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last one. His reasons: "Europe's general staffs still believe in the effectiveness of mass movements and think the larger their armies are the more powerful will they be. The fallacy of the theory was exposed a generation ago by the mechanical progress which made...
...Ohio with the circus everybody in town turns out to see him perform except his mother. She thinks his act should be "cuter and less exciting." When Beatty ran away from Chillicothe at 15 to join the circus he found oldtime one- species, one-sex animal acts already too tame to make the public pulsate. People wanted fights. Sure way to start fights was to make the "big cage" a welter of hatred and jealousy by mixing species and sexes. Beatty kept on mixing and adding until by 1930 famed circus Press Agent Dexter Fellows could advertise "Forty (40) Magnificent...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
...document called for conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes; protection of workers against dangerous machinery and occupational diseases; abolition of child labor; suppression of the "sweating system"; reduction of working hours with at least one day in seven free; a living wage; "suitable provision" for old and incapacitated workers. Tame though it sounds today, Dr. North's social program struck many a good churchman as downright radical in 1908. Since then the Federal Council has revised its credo, adding notably stronger clauses on social planning and control of credit and money; a "just share" of profits for workers...
...judgment in coming on here for the final week, but I disagree. Eddie Casey wrote Horween last September, saying: "You'll be welcome anytime." The answer will be had when a final estimate of Harvard's performance today is available. It may take a lot of valiant battling to tame that Bulldog, but it seems to be that Harvard is ready to expend that energy...