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...mighty bear has momentarily ceased his savage growls. He is still stalking his rightful prey, but with a sort of grim humor he has reared himself upon his hind legs and is waving his murderous paw with a delicate and artistic grace. To be sure, Gulliver is brutally blunt at times. For example, when he suspects that he is dealing with a species of miniature greed and exploitation, he roars out a stentorian refutation of the whining little fawners' claims, and sends them quaking and tumbling before the blast. There's nothing shilly-shally about "The New Gulliver"; it takes...
...results of their semester's work the difficulty of obtaining grades and the impossibility of seeing corrected blue books are issues of at least passing interest. Some, whose concern is leavened by the proximity of probation or Dean's List, have been known to rear back on their hind legs and shout disapproval in no uncertain terms, audible even in University Hall...
...paid his tax: He could not; he was already in debt; if he had plunked down $45,000 to pay the tax he would have had to go out of business long before the constitutionality of the law was settled. "If a man has a pig by the hind leg," said Texan Hardie, "he can't afford to let go when somebody says to him, 'Drop that pig and catch another...
...short order a jury of twelve, with two alternates, was chosen, largely because none of them had ever heard of the master of the Golden Hind. One venireman was passed over because he lived in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, once an assistant U. S. attorney and an authority on postal law, set out to save those of his twoscore clients whom he could. It was soon clear that he did not hope to save them all. Passing up Hartzell and Yant, he pointed at some of the others, pleaded: "Whatever may be the truth...
Today is the last day upon which Undergraduates may change courses (drop or add) without liability of the course fee. Positions must be filed in person at Room C, University Hall. A. E. Hind marsh...