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...ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives the white hand of the more bewitching of his two sweeties...
...second meet of the Engineer's season. The individual star of the team is Captain A. D. Smith, who won both the 220-yard and 440-yard races against Maine last Saturday, and who will probably set Captain Burke a fast pace in the quarter mile. In the dashes, Heap and Porter are two of M. I. T.'s best men, while exclusive of Captain Smith, Bateman, Snow, and Makepeace are the fastest quartermilers. This trio, along with Captain Smith and Poor, are the outstanding performers in the 880-yard run. The men who have made the best time...
...Technology, is not as strong in the field events as on the track, there are some high class M. I. T. entrants in these contests. Greenough in the high jump and Stearns in the pole vault have been clearing some good heights, while in the broad jump Stewart and Heap have been showing up well. In the weight events Dexter and Drew have been making the longest heaves, while the discus throwing of Tryon and Caine, and Garrard's javelin work have been particularly promising...
...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...
...turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...