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...rung up solely against the men who carry the ball. More than half of the blame rests on the line's slowness and lack of power in charging and the guard's equal slowness in running interference. Even Jack Buckler of the Army wouldn't have been a world-beater last Saturday if his frontiersmen hadn't been opening huge holes in the Harvard defense...
...churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were so stiff that it was easier to stand on them...
...minister-missionary and a Unitarian minister, Dr. Dieffenbach became editor 15 years ago of the Christian Register, one of the oldest religious papers in the U. S. Observers have traced the Scopes trial in Tennessee to Dr. Dieffenbach's pungent words: it was he who first, like a beater stirring up game for hunters, brought the Fundamentalists into full view. Last December the Christian Register trustees agreed they had had enough of Liberalism. They let Editor Dieffenbach out on grounds of economy. Other religious editors deplored the ousting. Last week they congratulated the Transcript...
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...well above the average of his party every day. Once more, in spite of predictions that the international polo and America's Cup races would lure Englishmen away, and the depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules...