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Fourteen seconds remained. Harrison hoped to isolate one of the big men under the basket, but Harvard had trouble putting the play into operation and finally, Gustavson, who had just made a spectacular save to keep the ball in play threw up a 20 footer from the top of the key. It hit the rim and time ran out before the Crimson could get the ball up again...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...insure its continuation. As long as enough students continued to use the bus despite a rise in price, the money collected in fares would come a lot closer to meeting costs. Although ideally the bus service should be continued unchanged, such a compromise may be the only way to save the bus, providing students are indeed willing to pay somewhat higher fares...
Still, there are a few scenes in Dark As the Grave that recall the control of Under the Volcano and Lunar Caustic, the humor and self-mockery that save Lowry's protagonists in spite of themselves. When the imagery gets a little too mucky even for Lowry's strong-backed readers to bear, he pushes his always tenuous symbolism gently over the edge, and it tumbles to the bottom with the almost comic relief of self-parody...
...Save where a pine at the sky's rim Took something from the bear...