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...times, gained 355 yards. In the last two years he has taken the ball 244 times, gained 2,424 yards?an average of almost 10 yards per start. This fall he captains Illinois. What wonder, then, that small boys as well as grave, grizzled coaches, have found a new paragon...
Louis XIV, paragon of despots, silenced the first signs of remonstrance against his wishes by the ever-effective reply : "Tel est noire plaisir...
...Expert Spofford cast reflections on Paragon Nash. Why? Presumably, it was because of certain facts which he may have observed which, however, had been brought out by Labor interests some time before. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers investigated the "Golden Rule" and alleged that it found...
This man Charlie, being only an average undergraduate, can not be held up as a paragon of either wit or wisdom. But he is one of a group which tends to regard the Rank List in more or less the same way they regard the Roll of Honor of the Great War's dead; the names on it are to be respected, but not too greatly envied. Beneath these mixed feelings the cause will be suggested by an analysis of the list...
Sixteen years of titular kingships under a domineering regency was necessary before the boy-King was to assume control. Whatever hopes the people had placed in Alfonso XIII were instantly blighted. To the man-in-the-street he appeared to be the paragon of haughty despotism?a king caring only for the external magnificance of his court, depending only on the conservative grandees and the bigoted prelates for advice. His former popularity had vanished like snow upon the desert...