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...records of the past in the United States and other countries show the effects of still other types of mental astigmatism in the observer. Revered traditions and enshrined heroes of America are protected above by the screaming eagle and on all sides by a cordon of staunch state legislatures, self-chosen guardians of national myths. Any history which puts in question an action of the United States may be thrown out of the schools as foreign propaganda. In the opposite camp are the "heretics" who tell us that whatever is, is probably not right, and who sometimes go afield...
...broke and in a few seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established, the election continued to its end when, as in a recent Mexican affair, "not much blooded was reported...
...customs cordon round the Ruhr area has been completed, and the French say that it is now impossible for the Germans to smuggle anything out of the enclosed district...
...summary, first game. Harvard a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Lincoln, 3b. 4 0 0 2 3 0 Cordon, r.f. 5 1 1 3 0 0 Conlon, s.s 3 1 1 1 3 1 Owen, 1b 4 2 1 9 0 0 Jenkins, 2b 2 1 2 3 1 1 Hallock, c.f. 3 0 0 4 0 1 Janin, l.f 3 0 1 2 0 0 Thayer, l.f 1 0 1 0 0 0 Murphy, c. 4 2 2 3 1 0 Goode, p. 4 1 3 0 3 0 Total, 33 8 12 27 11 3 Yale Crane...
...Cordon; 2b., Bullard; 3b, T. M. Carnegie; c., I. C. Larrabee; l.f., A. S. Rogers; s.s., Percy Jenkins; r.f., I., B. Lockwood; 1b., R. G. Norris; P., E. I., Gherke or George Bemis...