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Floyd Stahl's baseball nine hit a new low for the season in almost every department of the game on Saturday afternoon and after two hours and fifteen minutes of listless play, the Tufts Jumbos carried off an unexpected 4 to 2 victory...
Doubtless Phi Beta Kappa men are fully aware that they alone are capable of saving the helpless rest of civilization from accidental suicide, but they have certainly been incredibly listless about doing it. So far, all they have accomplished has been in the line of rallies featuring the clarion call of intellectualism and reiterating that the world will be much safer when it is entirely in their hands...
When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...
Dinner at 8145 is usually attended by three or four uninvited guests (if too many come, they have to split portions). If the talk becomes listless, the impish Beaver does not conceal his distress. Raising his thin arms over his head he exclaims: "Oh God, I'm bored!" His Canadian birth has not prevented Lord Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went...
...Harvard team as a whole played in a listless and loggy fashion. Their sustained drives were practically negligible. Defensively on the ground they held the visitors to 34 yards, but in the air, both offensively and on the defense, the Crimson were distinctly odorous. They tried 15 forwards and completed two for a gain of less than 30 yards, while their opponents completed eight out of 21 aerials and made 152 yards by them...