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Eight new champions were created in the University wrestling bouts yesterday afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building when the groan and grunt finals for 1936 were...
...this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never say die (Dickens, 1837). Silence in the pig-market, and let the old sow have a grunt (1894). Three classes of clergy: Nimrods, ramrods, and fishing-rods...
...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
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What a fine exhibition of bad taste the "tycoons" of utilities displayed when Mr. McCarter proposed a toast "To the President of the United States!" as reported in your Dec. 23 issue. Makes me believe the old saying, "Expect nothing from a pig but a grunt," holds good...