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...Congressional District "every four years crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork to vote for William McKinley." The crawling-out-of-woodwork metaphor was an added touch by the New York Times writer; he had an unusually fine prose style, given to flourishes which, as he might put it, bode well for a career in journalism. I did remark, sadly, how certain voters up here seem to pledge fealty every four years to William McKinley, but just as I was about to make an issue of this, I was advised by a relative interested in genealogy that the only American...
...scores in the first Ivy League contests this weekend bode ill for Crimson chances. Teams rated on a par with Harvard showed disconcerting strength, and in the upper brackets, only Princeton failed to live up to predictions...
...before the first Sunday in May and. occasionally, at other times. The process has taken as long as 22 hours (in 1944) and as little as five seconds (1919). Speed is a good omen, Neapolitans believe, and last week's 28 minutes, while not a record, seemed to bode well for the year ahead...
...results bode something for the new year: the Crimson squad finished eighth or ninth in a field of 35 colleges, including victorious Pitt, Michigan, and Ohio State. Pickett's was the only Ivy team in the tournament...
Today's game against an unknown Tufts opponent will settle nothing certainly, although a loss would bode poorly. It can, however, give an indication of some unforeseen strength...