Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better. The jokes and articles are uniformly poor; the drawings for the most part little more. A frontispiece sketch depicting the infant freshman, lost amid a pile of grips, packages and steamer rugs, and finally unwound and revealed in the college office is the best of the lot. But who are the strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis (He isn't really very old); secondly...
...terms. The Western Marine and Salvage Co. came forward with an offer. On the calm waters of the River James, lay 218 ships, the pride of the U. S. wooden navy, built at a cost of $235 million. The Salvage Co. has taken an option on the entire lot. Ten are to be burned. If the iron and copper salvaged from the ashes repay the effort, the whole fleet will be bought...
...there. It is said that he will learn nothing. No candid observer could claim that the outward signs of mental accretion are overwhelming, but in private conversation Ferguson displays at times a disconcerting clearness of vision, and a wealth of real understanding about a lot of things that he regards as important. . . . "One great need ... is a good 'contact man'-someone who can interpret the college to Ferguson and Ferguson to the college. He must be a rare man, but he can be found...
When Johnson came out of the gulches of Idaho to start service for Washington in 1907, a dilemma arose. So fast did he throw a ball that no average catcher could "hold him." Finally "Gabby" Street was found. "Gabby" talked a lot but could catch and hold anything, even a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. After Street, Edward Ainsmith was discovered. At present one "Muddy" Ruel risks his palms and finger tips stopping Johnson's 'bulletlike "in visibles." Tall, blonde, 37 a native of Humboldt, Kan., father to three sons, John son has been...
...depend on one thing?the letters will be crammed full of speed, zip, pep and go! A guy who could write a song out of a flock of bugle calls and help win a war will write some letter?the kind that will make you shout for a lot...