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...Washington's Evergreen Kennel Club dog track, while the rest of the field of greyhounds as usual chased the mechanical rabbit vainly around the track. Mignonette, a novice bitch, tore off in the opposite direction and met the rabbit headon. Mignonette tore the fluff lure off the moving rack and the rest of the field pounced on it. The race was canceled...
From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...
...early period, Kokomo followed the frontier tradition. There were shootings, barn-burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also...
...were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...rack was Franklin D. Roosevelt's Looking Forward, George W. Wickersham's Restating the Law and similar works. Passing up such dullish reading, reporters fastened their eyes on other social documents: The Working Woman in the Soviet Union, Why a Workers' Daily Press?, and outpourings like What Every Worker Should Know About NRA by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less...