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...years gone by, it has been the boast of the Harvard Band that it has managed to distort itself into about 84 formations, but when it announces that the letter today will be No. 100 on the schedule, it is something that even the sophisticated might reflect upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND MAKES CENTURY MARK WITH LETTER "H" | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

There is no greater state than Kansas. No mountains distort its surface. Its winding rivers are as precisely parallel as its level roads. The grain in its flat fields waves as if marcelled. Its citizens lead lives of regularity. Last week Kansans had as great a shock as if the Rocky Mountains had suddenly risen from their harvest fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Forgery De Luxe | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Secretary Hurley (shouting) : Well, let me tell some one else then, if you know so well. In every question, you've tried to distort what I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dialog | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Secretary Hurley (now raging): I've taken just about all I can stand from this committee. You won't permit the truth to be told. You distort everything I say. Now you can go ahead and browbeat your witnesses but you can't call me a liar and expect me to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dialog | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...writers had stopped this year to play up men as All-American prospects, two defeats had taken the spotlight off that gridiron monster, Notre Dame, and it seemed that things were actually progressing toward sanity Only a continual list of charity games and unemployment round-robins had served to distort the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SICK MAN OF SPORT | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

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