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...square went mad. A tremendous wave of sound rolled across the darkening square and crashed against its walls. The mass of humanity became a writhing thing, twisting and turning in ecstasy. Thirty-five thousand fists reached into the sky. Red, green and white Persian flags waved frantically to & fro...
...President Reynolds bears the responsibility for all the administrative decisions of the University, he does not have sufficient time to spend on long-range building plans as well. That is why Cambridge city planners feel that Harvard often takes action only when it cannot dodge a problem any longer. Fro instance, after years of parking troubles Harvard opened the Business School parking lot--too late, too little...
...parties given every year on the presidential country estate of Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...
...present case which we are remotely analyzing) football, accurate prediction of the possible outcome of a significant athletic encounter is, of course, made even more difficult by factors of which the observer is not aware until the exact moment that the contest commences: adverse weather, a driving rain, fro example, can transform a swift group of athletes into eleven separate amorphous masses, clumsiness incarnate; besides, good coaching, too, cannot be under-stressed, vital as it is in the transformation of a promising team into a team with great potential; spirit, that greatest of all abstractions, is, perhaps, most important...
...Willies really go to town. They break out large numbers of water pistols, were all kinds of collegiate garb, and import many good looking women, who also man water pistols and run around in white shirts to boot. Before and after the game, the lacrosse players speed to and fro in fast motor cars, many of them new convertibles. In the Williams milieu, the frat house is paramount at all times...