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...though variously tutored, had high possibilities. Besides Michigan's Forest Evashevski, Ohio State's Dick Fisher, Iowa's "Bus" Mertes and Northwestern's George Benson, he was blessed with a triple threat named Bill Schatzer, who had hid his brilliance for four years under a bushel named North Central College in Illinois. In the Seahawks' first two games-against Kansas and Northwestern -Fledgling Schatzer made one-third of the cadets' total yardage, scored three of their 18 touchdowns, had a hand in most of the plays that smothered their opponents with scores...
With the draft threatening to decimate undergraduate ranks in every department of the University, Business School Inmates have decided to "hide their light under a bushel" by assiduously secreting themselves behind their text books during all former one-day holidays this season...
Miss Cassidy's light burned unwaveringly, though under the Journal of Commerce's bushel (circ. 21,000). Other newspapers repeatedly passed her by, hiring "long haired" esthetes to write dull but pompous-sounding critiques...
...news was under a bushel and was carefully kept there. The chemists talked learnedly, wordily, nebulously about synthetic rubber. Significantly, one scheduled paper on synthetic rubber was called off at the last moment. Nobody talked at all about such important new developments in gasoline as the chemicals which retard the deterioration of leaded aviation fuels in storage, or new ingredients in 100-octane gas. Many chemists were simply too busy to attend...
...that matter, who gives a particular hang about New York politics anyhow? Here in Indiana they grow politicians by the bushel, and good ones, too. New York is just one of 48 states...