Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity to scramble to safety. Now it looms over him, and the Vagabond looks at it and does not move. he knows he could perhaps move his head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better...
...Vagabond life is like the Reading Period, and the Reading Period like the hard, glistening road the examination steamroller is even now traversing. Later, when his jelly has been once more remoulded into human from, and some activity, by a shot in the arm from potent University Hall doctors, he knows there will be more butterflies to chase, and there will be other steamrollers, too, grunting along under assumed names like "Termbill" and "Divisional" and "Thesis," and then one jokingly called "Final," which is never really final at all. Like streetcars, there will always be another one coming to make...
...comprise one of the fastest groups of sprinters in the country. Frank Coleman and Bob Murphy will take care of the distance work, while Eric Cutler, who created a sensation last year when as a Freshman he came dangerously near five minutes in the 440, is out with an arm injury...
Most valuable as archaeological specimens were a gold double crocodile pendant with four dogs attached, a gold head band, a heavy gold arm band, and an elaborate gold necklace. A carved manatee with gold overlay representing a bat god was also considered an important loss...
Other objects missing from the "jimmied" showcases on a third-floor room of the museum include three gold nose rings, two gold ear spools, two gold head crests, two gold strips to be sewn on clothing, two gold bird's heads, two miniature gold arm bands, two frog-shaped ornaments, two gold disks, and two other nondescript gold ornaments...