Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Intruder in the Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...
Yale did not run against Princeton. It did not run because it could not. However, Messrs. Hickman and Jack Lavalle have seen Harvard's defensive setups. The latter, an operative whose girth is comparable to Hickman's and whose football sagacity is legendary, scouted Army nine times a year for three years while in the employ of the Notre Dame Athletic Association. If he found flaws in the 1944, 1945, and 1946 Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale...
...Latter-day Harvard coaches who introduced new plays for the Yale game had nothing on co-mentors Stewart and Lake, who, in 1893, outfitted their charges in shiny leather suits. One of the main reasons for the suits was said to lesson the weight a player would have to carry in case of rain, but all sorts of dubious motives were ascribed to the Harvards. The opposing captains waged a bitter arguments before the game as to the legality of the suits but the officials could find nothing in the rule book against wearing them so the game went...
...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
Harvard came to Africa over 20 years age after closing its southern observatory in Peru because the latter country's long cloudy season interfered with the station's photographing...