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...fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet eleven. But the unity of the team lent glamour to the individuals and after reflection it is possible to find instances where other players might fit in better...
...management of the ranch entirely over to Robert II instead of running it themselves as directed by Henrietta Kind's will. 2) He is not temperamentally suited to run it. 3) He lives on a lavish scale and charges his expenses up to operation. 4) The trustees have lent large sums to favored parties, none to the Atwoods. 5 ) They have not kept proper account books. Ostensible purpose of the suit is to force an accounting and to depose Robert II. Real purpose is probably to gain a bargaining advantage for the Atwoods in the complicated jockeying...
...pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle him to their outpost by treacherous subterfuges. Mala breaks out of their handcuffs, starts home to the two new wives a friend has lent him, eating the members of his dog team as he goes. The police finally catch up with him but are by this time so impressed by Mala's. fortitude that, instead of shooting him, they let him escape on a cake of drifting ice. They are under the impression...
...yesterday afternoon to warn the organizers of dire consequences if the rally got out of hand. Alarmed at this, the latter made a futile, thought sincere, last-minute attempt to call the whole thing off. In the end the team and the band, the two elements which might have lent respectability to the gathering, were kept away, and the crowd was left without a program of any sort. Finally, after the rally had nearly exhausted itself in a good deal of running about the streets, a squad of Cambridge policemen did their best to provoke trouble anew by interfering with...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...