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...tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...
...Yale line played in flimsy blue jerseys which appeared to have been cut in strategic places beforehand, so that shortly after the game began they were hanging in shreds, many without sleeves or with protruding shoulder-pads. This was evidently calculated to demonstrate the ferocity of Eli's forward wall...
...felt some misgivings beforehand that this delegation might be stacked with one political faction or another. It was relieving to find that there was a great diversity of opinion among us, but no hard division into cliques. In over-lasting tribute to our sanctity, not even the Hearst newspapers found cause to smear on the old familiar label. In fact, news coverage of the New York sessions was thorough and accurate...
...Gallows in the Rain. Gayest feather in any Jesuit hat was "Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...
...solution of the dye, malachite green, injected before a brain operation, will temporarily dye diseased brain tissue, but has no effect on healthy brain tissue. The British surgeon who uses it to help guide his knife has to reassure his patients beforehand: their skin and eyeballs will get over being green in a few days...