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Across the wild northern hills comes the winter wind, painting the leaf and foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...Professional football, I really believe, is much cleaner than college football," "Lone Star" continued in response to a query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game...
...first 50 k.w.h. at 3? per k.w.h. ($1.50) which in the average home will operate lights, iron, toaster, percolator, vacuum cleaner for one month...
...proposal for compulsory military training sent a handful of students scurrying to the Capitol to swear they would never bear arms for their country. Their demonstration incensed Assemblyman James H. Higgins, a Milwaukee dry cleaner, who spluttered: "I was never so insulted in all my life. Eighteen-and 20-year-old kids throwing abuse at World War veterans! . . . Their views suggested that they were believers of Communism, Bolshevism and atheism...
...liver. One of these tiny maggots he penned in the pulp chamber of the tooth with a light cotton plug. Three days of work killed the maggot. Another slim maggot then went to work, delved for three days, died. Then a third maggot. After nine days the tooth was cleaner than a dog's, "with the exception of a thin, hard, white secretion left on the wall of the canal by the maggot." That coating was sterile...