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...coach may ground his players in the essentials of a gruclling and often dangerous sport. Indeed, Spring football was born a long time before the game became polluted. If the evil is to be eliminated, it must be eliminated by purging its roots: the almost universal and thoroughly rotten recruiting policies of our nation's colleges...
...Consumption, which had been for half a century the muse of literature, became a blot on society, the symbol of all that was rotten in the industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
...hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready, the cap was opened. With a great hiss, jets of water and drilling-mud shot out of the hole. For a few minutes there was just the steady hissing of moist gas, smelling like rotten eggs. Then came the oil-a greenish-yellow stream. Amerada had brought in its 70th Williston producer, and Farmer Osborn was on his way to wealth. By year's end Amerada will have 75 producers in the basin, in another year more than...
...Asian policy, Communist subversion, and civil rights. Our stand on each has been closer to that of Adlai E. Stevenson and the Democratic platform than to that of Dwight Eisenhower and the Republicans. No newspaper or voter, however, can sample the issues displayed by each party without finding some rotten wares. These non-issues, born of distortion and trumpeted throughout the country by leaders of both sides, have added only confusion to the Presidential campaign...
...shoots up tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also noticed the rotten-eggs odor of hydrogen sulfide, which volcanologists consider a sign that a volcano is quieting down...