Word: pedaling
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...arrived in the University Book Store, how one of his superiors returned the books to the publisher, how Dr. Sprowls had protested to President Morgan. According to Dr. Sprowls the President had replied: " I believe in evolution more than you do, Dr. Sprowls, but it is necessary to soft pedal evolution because Tennessee is as likely to have a 'monkey' legislature as Kentucky." Thereupon Dr. Sprowls was dismissed. He told the trustees that there was no question of his reinstatement-he had secured a position with the University of Idaho, and would not return to Tennessee if asked...
...Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...
...Times, and is constantly hiring more warehouses to hold his money; and Wiley, who goes everywhere that Ochs goes, like the little bird that accompanies the rhinoceros, and warns it. Otto H. Kahn was there. His specialties are money and music, with a little extra pressure on the money pedal. Also Melville Stone, who joined the 'Why Did I Do It Club' when he sold the Chicago News to Lawson."-Arthur Brisbane in the Hearst papers...
...Professor Burton should occasionally give the least touch to the soft pedal and remember that English should be good even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than...
...several concerts this season it has been touch-and-go between the solo coughers and musicians; the Coughers' Chorus, with symphony accompaniment, has been heard frequently, but without any notable pleasure. And your public cougher doesn't know the use of the soft pedal--he coughs fortissimo and sostenuto. The world will be a far better place to live in if the International Anti-Coughing Union succeeds in its suggested purposes...