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...opposite goal post. The Vagabond took advantage of the silence to hand his girl the little book and announce significantly: "This is a football rule book, so that no one will ask questions." The relatives looked at one another, then at the girl. The rule book passed to and fro, and the Vagabond watched the game in peace...
When George Moriarty, embattled mentor of the American League, gave an address recently, he kept up an unceasing pace, walking to and fro on the platform before his audience, remarking that "its harder to hit a moving object with a pop bottle than a stationary one." Pop bottles are as out of place at Soldiers Field as they are welcome at Fenway Park, and the Harvard team can rise to new heights of baseball proficiency when pop bottle tactics are banished from the bench and the bases...
...investigate a wreck off Seraglio Point, who immediately signalled to be drawn up again, explained that "at the bottom of the sea was a great number of bowing sacks, each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number of children produced by harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death...
...these three phenomena show a close correlation with sunspot activity and particularly with the passage of an active sunspot group across the central area of the sun's disc; the aurorae, borealis and australis, perform beautifully, magnetic compasses oscillate to and fro over a small amplitude centered at their normal position, and long distance radio reception is either improved or hampered. In connection with the last of these it should be said that whether reception is improved or hampered depends upon the wavelength of the signals and other factors related to radio transmission. The assumed validity of a correlation...
Perhaps it is just as lucky that the G.O.P. has never dwelt too long on this phase of its bid for power. When the shouting dies away and the cold light of reason is applied to the record and personality of the nominee fro the presidency--Alf M. Landon--one is surprised that the American public has ever been cozened into accepting as a candidate for its highest office a man whose record is one of drab mediocrity and whose personal qualifications keep him as far removed from being a presidential possibility as Kansas is removed from the Atlantic seaboard...