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...serious injuries were reported from the Penn clash last week, and with a couple of days of rest the team should be ready for the grind which will extend to the Yale game and in which the Holy Cross encounter is only an interim...
Exceeding Small is the way in which the mills of God grind, as stated by Friedrich Von Logau in a much misquoted German poem.* In this play, the first offering of the Actors' Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window...
...Though the mills of God grind slowly...
...they grind exceeding small...
...keep intelligent men and women well informed-that is the only axe TIME has to grind."-From the original announcement of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...