Word: frogging
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...Fate, in this struggle for existence, dooms animals to be quick or to be dead, and the frog who allows his body temperature to sink on a cold day will find his muscles too sluggish for him to escape the experimenting biologist. It is only through exerting his metabolic functions in muscular action that he can raise his temperature...
...natural interest in the system of community singing in American schools and assemblies, and especially in the growing love of singing for pleasure's sake. Above all, this gentleman was pleased with the revolution which the Harvard Glee Club has accomplished in sounding the death-knell of the "Bull-Frog on the Bank" type of music, sung by what he terms "merely more or less convivial societies for singing raucous songs with banjo accompaniment"--an astoundingly accurate description...
...little old man with a head something like Franz Liszt's portraits-the same high forehead, eagle nose and long gray hair. The audience burst into applause. . . The little man put his feet together and clasped his hands and bowed stiffly from the waist, looking very like the frog footman in Alice as he did so. The audience kept on applauding and he kept on bowing. . . . Then he sat down and began to play Beethoven's Pathetic Sonata...
Carl Sandburg, Chicago poet, defines poetry as " a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...
...Renewal of University swimming team planned". And judging from the numbers that have signed the blue books, there is a decided interest in the idea. But a swimming team under present conditions would stand as much chance in a contest as "Dan'I Webster"--Mark Twain's prize frog.--after being forced to swallow lead. With no adequate pool in the University the candidates will have to go to the Y. M. C. A. tank in Boston and even there, unless present arrangements are changed, the only available time for practice will be during the supper hour. That a representative...