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...took it on, he defended Abel with skill and dedication. He carried the defense to the Supreme Court, succeeded in getting Abel a fairly gentle sentence of 30 years' imprisonment. "In my time on this court," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, "no man has undertaken a more arduous and self-sacrificing task." In gratitude. Abel presented Donovan with one of his paintings. Donovan also received a $10,000 fee from somebody behind the Iron Curtain purporting to be Abel's wife. He donated the $10,000 to Fordham, Harvard and Columbia...
...easiest was the team of New York Giants, including Offensive Tackle Roosevelt Brown and Halfback Bob Gaiters. The match was defaulted by the Giants. "We apparently were too frightening in our warmup." said Free man. "Brown would have been putty in my hands." Shockingly Superior. The most arduous contest was a six-hour winkathon in San Francisco, in which seven U.S. teams were shut out in quick succession. The touring Britons dashed off a challenge to President Kennedy, asking him to field a team...
...Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then: Ended were his wild adventures, Ended were his tricks and gambols, Ended all his craft and cunning, Ended all his mischiefmaking...
...sharply demarcating course examinations encourage intellectual ; the student gets the feeling he has "completed" a field of and can now move on to something else. "If one doesn't have examination the task is never done. . . Examinations seem arduous, but they are actual easy way out--a time-clock.' they tend to prescribe field is like and what the data is. A teacher may tell his students to think and evaluate things for themselves, but the examination system rewards them for figuring what he wants--"teaching is odds with the examination system defeats itself." And by providing an artificial group...
...battled to what he termed a "sweet victory," in an arduous match with Yale's seventh-seeded Hetherington 6-4, 4-3, 7-5. Hetherington had defeated him only a few days before. Ripley then smashed M.I.T.'s third-seeded Stan Aasnaos 6-3, 6-3, and upset the tournament favorite, Williams' Jim Botts...