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...Lewis brought home a t-shirt for putting down the highest-scoring word in the round--"BREATHES" for 95 points. The "B" earned a Double Letter score, the word crossed a Triple Word square--and Lewis managed to empty all seven letters from his rack for a 50 point "bingo...
...sure the Catholic bishops [Dec. 1] know the Prohibition amendment failed because it was unenforceable, and that to make an antiabortion law partly successful it would be necessary to revive the Holy Inquisition with the rack, wheel, auto-da-fé and burnings at the stake-all for the glory of God and the loving, gentle Jesus Christ...
...February 27, 1932, in Dorrigo, New South Wales, the group trapped one fine dark-furred platypus. He--for it is a he, as he has poison spurs on his back legs--now rests in taxidermic peace, beneath the stupor of paradiethylchloride, with 12 of his fellows in the bottom rack of a huge case of monotremes and marsupials on the fifth floor. It is an austerely bolted cabinet, anciently designed to preserve the skins mechanically if not chemically. The skins lie on great wooden beds that slide out with the surging and lachrymatory bouquet of mothballs. The rest...
Around the start of the fourth quarter I would sit down with my empty rack and watch the game begin. That was the best thing about Ivy football--nothing of consequence ever seems to happen before the fourth quarter. So while everyone in the stadium had spent three quarters sitting around eating popcorn I had earned the tidy sum of $8 and hadn't missed a thing. Very enterprising...
...finally hung up my popcorn rack and starched jacket in the tenth grade but at opening game freshman year I remember identifying more closely with my white coated cohorts than the tweed and topsider crowd which had plagued my wonder years...