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...James J. Corbett struggle in 1892. Sullivan was equipped with the most powerful right hand that ever dealt a knockout; he was short, heavy and slow. Corbett was known as the " dancing master. He cut Sullivan to pieces at long range and never once did the great right hand jar the opposing jaw. Skill won the world's championship and has retained it ever since. Now Firpo climbs into the ring to win it back again for bone and muscle. He climbs in perfectly conditioned despite his unique training methods. He brings with him a strange fatalistic belief...
...perfectly preserved mummy of an Inca chief was unearthed, with art objects in a large earthern jar, in the province of Salta, Argentine. The embalment methods may prove superior to those of the Egyptians...
Take your own case, for instance. Why didn't you make that world-moving discovery when you had so many chances? Just call to mind the cookie jar in your boyhood home. Remember how earnestly and often you vowed that you would never again raid that cookie jar. And you were a good, honest boy, too. Yet every time you saw that cookie jar you tasted its contents in imagination. No one will ever know how manfully your will power fought against your imagination, no one but yourself can realize how heroically you strove to be all your mother...
...time after time tumble over the discovery without stumbling on it would like to know just how he happened to see if and pick it up. And, if anyone is offering odds, wouldn't you like to wager a little that it all sprang out of a cookie jar incident or something very like it? -Los Angeles Times
...idle theorists can hope for such a graceful subject of theorizing as Mr. Gleason has proven in last Friday's CRIMSON, Answering Mr. Fleming's article on labels, he appropriately steps forward, crowns his opponent with a sort of gigantic preserve-jar label "radical," and thereby pickles him for life, shelving him where no unwitting undergraduate lover of the constitution can be in danger of his phizzing over again...