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Yale had been playing for 12 and 9-10 yrs. on the slocum of don't tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAER BOSTON! | 10/26/1922 | See Source »

...well-known fact that if a worm is cut in half the two halves live on, and crawl off through the dust in opposite directions. The intelligence that there is an organization of German propagandists spread throughout the cities of this country for the purpose of furthering good relations between Germans and Irish brings up the question as to whether both halves of the German worm are not crawling towards the United States. The answer to the question becomes apparent when the leader of such an organization attempts, as did von Mach, to use the American Legion as a connecting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALF A WORM | 2/11/1921 | See Source »

...crawl by night in No-Man's Land with never a sight or sound...

Author: By R. W. Coues., | Title: WORK IS OF HIGH CALIBRE IN MAY HARVARD MAGAZINE | 5/10/1919 | See Source »

...likes to see a man crawl out of the sewer and get up in the roof garden--not the man who is little because it is easy to be so. Study your capabilities! If God wants you to be an iron cog-wheel in the machinery of life, you will be better off the sooner you stop trying to be a steam whistle or a glaring searchlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FROG NOISIER THAN WHALE" | 11/18/1916 | See Source »

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