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...progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy...
Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Mass., is surrounded by a dreary, dilapidated stadium; from factory chimneys near it long pennants of smoke twist in the wind and mark the low sky. Into the stadium last week there drifted a drooling drizzle and a cold, odorous draught. North Carolina, accustomed to warm blue afternoons, grew as stiff as a dying hare. Harvard backs called Gilligan and French fooled Carolina ends called Sapp and Presson so well that Harvard won 20-0. --Time...
...their heritage. In much the same manner the classes which frolicked around the tree and solemnly planted the ivy shoot will bridge the gap and be reincarnated in the Class of 1928 which like all classes which have preceded it today smiles us last smile before drinking the bitter draught of departure...
...High Hatters. Neither very funny nor very exciting, this slangy little mystery farce was wafted quietly into a theatre by a draught from the wings when someone left the stage door open to the lazy mid-spring airs of Broadway. It summarizes the doings of two second story men who become inmates in a boobyhatch so that they can practice their profession without legal interruption...
...message was countersigned by President-emeritus T. A. D. Jones. Lampwick is the Blue's stellar performer with the Anglo-Saxon idiom. "We're just an eensty bit glad," confessed "Speed" Copeland, Crimson draught-kicking mentor...