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It was Mucilage who had the first suspicion of the truth. The morning the English 99 1-2 exam was to be held, he substituted at the last minute papers for Abyssmian Philology. A few discontented murmurings were heard from the students, but most of them set diligently to work...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

Something ought to be done about this. Even though bees do possess sour dispositions often scarcely compensated by their sweet production, it should be remembered that they are too ignorant, or too wise, to form protective unions, and, as insects, cannot appeal to the S. P. C. A. for justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEE WARNED | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

"Misrepresentations"-George N. Peek, the farmers'-friend to whom was entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

"He has noosed the cumbrous pachyderm of the violin species, has dragged him up out of the orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

No account of Stanford's Hoover reception would be complete, however, if it represented the university's attitude as one of unalloyed satisfaction with Herbert Hoover. Like any other social microcosm, the Stanford community (faculty, students, trustees, alumni) has its discontented minority-men who will never agree that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home & Gown | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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