Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand years ago legend ran that a certain king of Pisa in Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...
...between the Danakil warrior and the Italian engineer, I, as a possible traveler or trader in those regions, am on the side of the engineer...
...warrior of God takes his notion of hymn-singing at athletic contests from the English soccer championship, where 95,000 persons rise and sing "Abide With Me." Mr. Smith admitted that such a crowd is the ideal type...
...Other press names for Louis: Brown Bomber, Ring Robot, Alabama Assassin, Dead-Pan Joe, Sepia Slasher, Dark Angel, Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Wildcat Warrior...
Biographers have usually met the problem of Grant's politics by placing the great warrior and the poor politician in closed compartments and permitting no commerce between them. William B. Hesseltine has met it, in his exhaustive, 480-page study, by placing all emphasis on Grant's political career. The result is an eminently readable book which clearly describes the character of Grant's political thinking? or of his political thoughtlessness?without quite accounting for either his occasional shrewd successes or his awe-inspiring failures...