Word: haltering
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Near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, truck gardener, tethered his horse to a tree as a storm approached, sought shelter for himself indoors. Lightning stabbed across the sky. Thunder dinned madness into the frightened horse. Rearing, plunging, it drew the tether rope ever tighter, choked to death as the halter contracted like a hangman's noose...
...something worth while and something that people will hear about on that day he will emerge from the lounge lizard class and court those gods whose presence is felt in the sunlight, the clean wind, and the smell of turf. Either this, or he must come forth on a halter of compulsion. Compulsory exercise may not be so beneficial as that in which students indulge because of their love of sport for itself or for the opportunities it gives of exercise in the open, but it is vastly better than nothing. Consider what army training did for our draft...
...Sever 18 Geology 8, Sever 18 German 1aI, New. Lect. Hall Government 11, Upper Dane Greek 9, Holden History 18a, Sever 29 Italian 2, Holden Land. Arch. 1, New Lect. Hall Music 2, Holden Zoology 9a, Zool. Mus. 1st fl. rm. 1 Anthropology 1: (Assignment of rooms, Anthropology). Halter to Leeds (inclusive), Sever 2 Lerner to Wolfe (inclusive), Sever 2 Chemistry 2: (Assignment of rooms, Chemistry 2). Adams to Garland (inclusive), Sever 5 Gilman to Powel (inclusive), Sever 6 Pratt to Woodworth (inclusive), Sever 17 Engineering 1e: (Assignment of rooms, Engineering 1c). Almy to Hicks (inclusive), Pierce 103 Lloyd...
...first there seems to be a touch of softness in "Jack Halter's Crime," but as the tale goes on we find a purely college story with clear glimpses of heroism, sentiment and love thrown...
...condensing parts of "Every Man out of his Humour," how each labled humour had its innings and then was put out. First he gave Jonson's Sordido, the farmer whose avarice culminates at the point where he upbraids the men who cut him down for not untying the new halter. Then followed the sketch of Sir Puntarvolo who united two humours. The first, his fad for reviving the elaborate manners of chivalry is destroyed by being caught in an absurd "make believe" situation. The second, his proclivity for dealing in "returns" and "marine insurances" ends equally disastrously...