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...Watson, Tom Talbot, McVeigh, Buzz Hovey and Radway behind him. There are six other boatloads of Varsity material, including last year's undefeated Yardling crew which Bolles has not as yet broken up. Captain Bill Rowe stroked this eight, with Jim Tyson at 7, Bill Huenekens at 6, Dud Talbot at 5, Larry Johnson at 4, Dave Scull at 3, Dick Ninde at 2, and Bunny Burnes...
Quick were many Harvardmen to insist that whatever Author Tunis' survey might show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish...
...less than were expected-listened to his best speech attentively but with no loud enthusiasm. The only really lusty cheer went up when the nominee lapsed into slang to condemn the slapdash Revenue Act of 1936. That his tax blast at the New Deal was no dud, however, became politically plain as potent Democrats rushed forward to dispute, deny and denounce his criticism...
...just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend his days in a library, spinning out his gigantic web of theory, Engels lived a more normally diversified life. He hunted with the English landowners he despised, just for the exercise. He rushed off to join the dud German revolution...
...whose company is in charge of an ammunition dump, is the only one to keep his head and stick to his post during a bombardment. A well-meaning artillery officer recommends him for The Iron Cross. Only result is that Berlin is given a more dangerous job: scavenging for dud shells...