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After one year of duty, Yule left the University police force to start building his reputation as "the friendliest superintendent at the College." At the Deacon House he long ago settled into his undisputed roles as checker champion and traditional performer in the annual Christmas play...
...passed by the checker's desk, Vag automatically picked up one of the little white slips and stuffed it in the breast pocket of his jacket, already bristling with silverwear put there some days ago at supper and since forgotten. He went down the line absent-mindedly, only the thud of mashed potatoes being dumped upon his tray reminding him of his surroundings. At the end of the line Vag picked up a coffiee and then stopped. He peered out over the tables packed with babling undergraduates, all of them waving their arms back and forth energetically. Over the monstrous...
Colors: Dark Red and Blue Checker Checked Shirts; Red and Blue Diagonally Striped Oars. Varsity; Bow, Daniel Piccone; 2, Robert Dempsey; 3, Irving Miller; 4, Stere Littauer; 5, William Mushake; 6, Thomas McDonough; 7, Paul McNamara; stroke John McCall; cov, William Chapman. Race Times: Freshmen...
...banded together to get the book published, but it made no bigger dent than the first one. Despondent, Robinson began hitting the bottle and living on loans and handouts from his friends. In 1903, when New York City was building its first subway, he took a job as time-checker. The first day, the nearsighted poet fell into an excavation, but he stuck with the job, ten hours a day at $2 a day for nine months. At night he drowned his frustration in cheap whisky. To a friend he wrote: "I was a tragedy in the beginning...
...Checker Tournament. In St. Louis, city checkers checking the passenger capacity of the Public Service Co. bus and trolley routes were trailed by company checkers checking the accuracy of the city's check, while Missouri Public Service Commission checkers checked on the checking of both groups...