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...directors were late, and their dispatch, once work was begun, in no sense atones for the years of slumber. Yet, of greater long-range importance, the Provost has kept Harvard's program clean. He has not perverted it, as even many Ivy League colleges have done, into a vacuum pump, sucking at every high-school football field, swimming pool, and baseball diamond, specking to relieve athletic deficits by cheapening education. Now and again, there may be violations of the scholarship first policy, but whatever pressure exists for recruiting an athletic elite, one may be sure, does not come from University...
Every 'Cliffe girl who has taken Body Mechanics knows how to walk up stairs, jump off stools with just the right degree of poise, and pump her abdomen to rhythm...
...anywhere, naturally, you have to wear shoes. This season the opera pump is eclipsed by the dressier models; cutouts, sandals, multi-fabrics, button 'n' beaus, colors (brilliant, shocking, startling, and good old reliable navy). Tennis shoes for classes, for tennis, yes, but be in step--you need bright accents on your feet to complement the severe lines of this season...
...Sawed-Off Skull. In the end, neither antibiotics nor leeches could avail. Stalin's heart raced faster & faster, up to 150 beats a minute, in its automatic effort to compensate for the small volume of blood it could pump. (The coronary artery, supplying the heart's own muscle was diseased like the rest.) Half of Stalin's brain was already dead. When his heart stopped the rest of the brain died and with...
...pump, which drives the water to be heated through the atomic reactor, can have no protruding shafts, which might cause leaks of deadly radioactive material. Pump and motor combined are "canned" inside the water pipe...