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...they had, both of them, a cruelly keen cutting edge, and they were all time forcing the blades ruthlessly into slavery, that new land, and extremists in both way with Kansas. It was beautiful land, the richest prairie of all the continent, with the finest farmland, and the broadest rivers. For a decade and more it had been criss-crossed by the trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California Trails all began at Independence, just at the lazy turn the Mississippi. But now it was crossed by grimmer tracks. The Freesoilers and the Slavers were...
...Dorson '37 has selected and edited in an extremely readable way the best of the Davy Crockett stories. That fantastic legendary figure, a combination of an epic hero and a coarse, earthy frontier representation of Baron Munchausen, is more than just an early example of American humor at its broadest and most extravagant. The Crockett Almanacs, with their crazy exaggerations and crudities and all their local color, have real literary value and show the frontier spirit at its best and worst...
...around with each other on a big black mat in seemingly strange fashion every afternoon, but there's method in their madness because all are under the watchful eye of Pat Orr Johnson, youthful Varsity and Freshman wrestling coach. And right now Pat has a right to flash his broadest smile in years, because as soon as his Varsity matment can shake off a few minor early-season injuries, they have a good chance to develop into one of the most powerful and best-balanced squads he has ever had here...
Early returns showed the Batista faction leading, and the dusky Colonel exulted with his broadest grin: "I have never been so happy in my public life as now! It is a triumph of the people that exalts both Cuba and the Cubans. The armed forces have reason to be content...
...search of what he called "the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition" that President Conant three years ago wistfully suggested that "it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term...