Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of these workouts candidates learn of more ways to throw a medicine ball than they had previously thought remotely conceivable, practice simulating pointer dogs, folding jackknives, and steel springs, contortions which the gray-haired director executes with the greatest ease, while his younger and potentially better adapted charges resemble octogenarians when attempting to accomplish the same maneuvers...
...Governor had a big problem of his own: he was a Harvard man, and the common people thought he ate nothing but ambrosia and champagne, and he didn't like this. And he saw that this was an opportunity to show the common people that he had the same middle-class sentimentality that they had, so he edicted in his common-touch manner--"There are some things in life holier than the mundane desires of earth. Sentiment is more noble than stomachly desires. Your Governor realizes this and asks you not to deprive your children of the edifying effect...
...starting ends Brownie Brinckley and Al Burtholemy, usually play a floating rather than a smashing game. The thought of Macdonald catching them flat-footed and scooting around them on reverses is apt to make them even more wary. Harvard's attack should be able to function for a succession of short gains even if there are no long touchdown dashes...
...Spanish people are still fighting to preserve their freedom of thought," Mira continued, "and the reason Franco is suppressing all the liberals in Spain is his fear of being assassinated...
...World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon barrages, and the interiors of munitions factories. After that the okayed versions were ready to be shipped where the British Government thought they would do the most good-to the Dominions, the U. S., other neutral countries...