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...annoymous letter-writer was soon to learn, however, that Harvard men were not the only ones susceptible to spring madness. The local record mounted to 24 and then 33. An M.I.T. man put down his slide-rule to devour 42. A daring Middlesex student followed with 67, and to set the intercollegiate record Joseph Deliberto of Clark University downed...
...seems to me that Afrikaners have created the terror for themselves, as men so often create the monsters which eventually devour them. It was a sad day for South Africa when Malan and his program of apartheid took over her destinies . . . South Africa lost her soul when she lost Smuts...
...does between pictures, such mechanical fakery should never be necessary. Lanza's idea of dieting, based on his own theory that proteins can add no weight, is to pile chicken legs, half-pound chunks of rare steak and a mound of barbecued kidneys on his plate, devour them and then heap on a second helping. For breakfast, he holds down to a steak and four to six eggs. He usually skips lunch. With great effort ("I go crazy"), he resists the spaghetti, ravioli and pizza he dearly loves, and the beer he loves scarcely less. In the old days...
...buds to blossom. Operating judiciously "in the light or shadow of the past and the possible," reason fosters the only kind of precarious progress there is-"perfections after our own kind in our own time and place." Says Santayana: "The circle neither envies the square nor wishes to devour it." "Live and let live" is his implied credo...
...outdoor types in most of the Rocky Mountain states. In spring he ships them by air as far away as Detroit. As soon as they eat a few aphids, they begin to reproduce. The eggs laid by the females hatch into larvae that look like miniature Gila monsters and devour up to 50 aphids a day. In around 20 days the larvae are ready to reproduce, too. "We just plant the seeds," says Pappy, "it's the multiplication does the work...