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...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...
...court and beyond. Green's center play, apparently the team's chief weakness in the first half, showed a startling reversal of form after the intermission and became a big factor in the victory. He was effective from the foul line, dropping six attempts out of seven through the hoop...
...Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly caravan conductor...
...second half, however, the Crimson attack utterly failed to function. For 18 minutes not a single goal dropped through the Harvard hoop. Meanwhile the Brunonians were piling up a 22 to 5 margin, with Tsukuno, diminutive Japanese forward, leading the attack. Coach Chase's players came to life with two minutes to go and their belated rally netted three goals...
...still halted the Eli attackers at a respectable distance from the basket and forced them to resort to mid-court shots. Pite's luck changed, however, and the same sort of long-distance pot-shots which had gone wild in the first half now began to drop through the hoop with disconcerting regularity...