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...another mile the two leading boats held relatively the same positions, with Syracuse dropping more and more out of the race. The University crept up to a three-quarter length lead at one time, but dropped back again to an even half length...
...Story. Over a windy English heath and down a hill crept a rutty road. At the bottom of the hill, the road found, unexpectedly, a village called Shelton, with old elms and houses bulging into the lane...
...very character of syncopation altered. Ragtime molted; Jazz, that Klaxon-throated Phoenix, rose from the ashes of untold night-club cigarets; the Blues crept on sly haunches out of the red-light alleys of Memphis, goose-fleshed the U.S. with the Macabre, demoniac plainsong of generations of junketing cats...
...merger period as 1900-06, except that today enthusiasm is more tempered with wisdom of ex- perience. But the figures are larger, except for the mammoth Steel Corporation merger of 1901. There are still few other billion-dollar corporations, yet in the last few years a large number have crept up to within striking distance of the billion-dollar class...
...worked on. Bubonic plague turned up in the West Indies and he headed the McGurk Commission. He would try out his Phage, but insisted that test patients be observed first. More hostility from McGurk, from the colonial government. When he finally had his way, Death, ironic in ghastly buboes, crept in arid throttled Leora. So that stroke for Science flew wide. Her death unmanned him, his figures went to pot, and the results McGurk published were flagrantly padded...