Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gerrit Smith Miller, who organized the Oneida Club, at Boston, in 1862. Rugby football, prototype of the U. S. game, was "founded" by one William Webb Ellis, a Rugby School student, in 1823. Reads a tablet on the playing field at Rugby, England: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
...thus addressing Judge Caverly, the State's Attorney was really talking over his head to the crowd outside, was lending the prestige of the State of Illinois to incite a mob to violence. Justice is not safe in the hands of an official so openly willing to exploit a notorious criminal case for his own political advantage...
...ruin of Christian civilization and the plunging of the entire earth into the dark abyss of barbarism, pauperism and serfdom to the advantage and satisfaction of only a small group of fanatics and a dissolute group of men who have lost honor and conscience, and hope to exploit this upheaval for the gratification of their cupidity and vicious appetites...
...corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot six in height, he weighs only about 130 pounds, has broad shoulders and a trim waist. He keeps himself in perfect condition, is always mentally and physically alert. Certainly Macready needed all his alertness, coolness and skill in his hazardous exploit of last week. On a recent night flight from Columbus, Macready found his motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field or other was impossible in the pitch dark. With his altimeter reading between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, the pilot guided...
...perform a series of loops, when the trick is once learned, is but a question of endurance and of a head that does not grow dizzy when earth and sky seem to revolve in a gigantic circle before one's eyes. Still, very few pilots could emulate the exploit of Madame Adrienne Bolland, French aviatrix who last week looped the loop 212 times, beating her own record of 98 loops-for-women. Only Maynard, famed U. S. sky pilot, and Fronval, the French aviator, have done better than this. Fronval holds the world's record with 962 loops...