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...Cole and two passes, Ferdinand to Cole and Ferdinand to right and Hathaway brought the ball to the Puritan's nine yard marker. Winthrop dug in at this point and held for four downs. The Funsters tried a couple of passes, one a sleeper, but the Puritan safety man Ab Fenn, was not to be caught napping and broke up the play. The game ended with both teams passing madly but vainly in an attempt to break the scoreless...
Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
Fortifying the seven-year law plan against a student protest movement threatening wholesale desertion, Dean Landis yesterday stated that the University will award AB degrees to all those drafted if they have completed their fourth year of study and decide after release from the Army that they cannot complete the entire course...
Prior to Dean Landis' statement, many undergraduates, fearing that they stood little chance of completing their studies with the United States on the verge of a World War, had decided to strive for an AB degree even if it meant abandoning the law plan...
Though the green frog among his lily pads and the dappled deer in the sun-flecked forest are familiar to everyone, adaptive coloration has always confused biologists. Extremists like G. H. and Ab bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes...