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That meant that out of every dollar wagered at Florida race tracks 15? (instead of 10?) would be taken out of the pool before dividing it among the winning betters. How horse players would react to this record levy caused Tropical's new owners some discomfort. Then came war to make matters worse...
...haunting Harlow. An infinite number of minute variables can change the outcome of a football game, and there are the ever present uncertainties of what the opponent may have to unveil for the first time, where he will lay his offensive emphasis, and how one's own team will react to unexpected tactics by the opposition...
...editors of the U.S. may not be able to swing the public in their train but they are influenced by the same things that influence the public, and sometimes react more swiftly. Lukewarmly debated in the election year of 1940, the issue of isolation-intervention came into its own this year...
...find itself in much the same position with regard to the strikers as do the owners now. The determination of the Union, shown at its meeting yesterday, not to be browbeaten by President Roosevelt's threat of force provides an indication of how labor all over the country will react to the presence of two battalions of infantry in the offing. If the Army takes over in Inglewood tomorrow the strike will be farther from solution than ever...
...never wrote a "masterpiece"-"the sentence was his unit"-but his theory of expression "was that on which Thoreau built, to which Whitman gave extension, and to which Hawthorne and Melville were indebted by being forced to react against its philosophical assumptions." Thoreau had Emerson's Nature solid underfoot to start his life on. In an analysis of Walden's quietly magnificent form, Teacher Matthiessen passes Thoreau on Coleridge's test of "the organic principle" -that form must arise out of the properties of the material-and names him one of the ancestors of modern functionalism...