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Caught cribbing, a University of Utah class in Chinese political thought was thus reproved by its professor, Utah's Senator-elect Elbert Duncan Thomas: "If you are going to cheat or steal, get something worth while. Be clever and make the other fellow pay. Don't get caught. I have been fooling people all my life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting...
...stride of the ant was 5/10 millimeters in length; three of his strides equaled one of the housefly's. In two minutes the ant made 2,000 strides; the housefly 500. Given: 1) the race was for 300 meters; 2) after eight hours the housefly began to cheat by flying to the point on the race track diametrically opposite to him, in the space of one second every alternate round, from that minute on; 3) at the same instant the ant sprained one of his ankles so that he could take only 1,200 strides every two minutes...
...fall," Professor Roorbach continued, "without continuing or even deepening the present depression and long delaying recovery. One thing is probable, and that is that if the debts are not substantially reduced, or even cancelled, some of them, at least, will be repudiated, not because of any wilfull desire to cheat the United States, but by virtue of the inability of the debator nations to pay. The result of repudiation would create a world-wide feeling of suspicion and uncertainty, which would long delay the economic recovery of the nations...
...indignation soon found a spokesman in the New York Sun. Cried the Sun: ''Well, those English can pull our legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel...
...remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children get rid of Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin...