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...with a gust of evolutionary Passion, and a Dose of Spanish Fly: was blind, like a Bat, and clumsy as an Ox. But so was he let into the Bower of ever-kneeling Nature. And so came Nature to pass - pushing away Hybrid with a Rumble of Discontent - a fullgrown Flarb into the Hands of the astounded Agriculturalists...
...thought you might be interested to know that while I was matriculating, which was toward the end of the depression, my roommates and I had as a pet a fullgrown panda named George. The summer before my final year at Harvard my father had brought her back with him from a trip to Tibet. I prevailed upon him to allow me to take the animal to school and keep her there, he being ignorant of the prohibition against having pets in the rooms. My roommates were of course delighted with George, and all went splendidly for almost a month...
Only real universities in the U.S. then were tiny Johns Hopkins and Clark; Harvard was still a college without university research. The University of Chicago sprang fullgrown from Harper's head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew...
There Director Hoover, whose sense of showmanship is fullgrown, announced that the $5,000 price he had resoundingly placed on Karpis' head week before (TIME, May 4) would be paid no one, since he and his G-Men had traced and captured the killer without assistance. It was indicated that Karpis, born Raymond Karpavicz 26 years ago in Canada, would be tried for the $100,000 snatching...
...Kleeck '95. The Fullgrown...