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...become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...
...told him to put one together. All last year, behind an anonymous office door, Beaman (a financial editor until he became Fuller's secretary eight years ago) labored in secrecy with a small staff. Rumors floated from Independence Square that conservative Curtis would launch a major magazine from scratch for the first time since Mrs. Cyrus Curtis started the Ladies' Home Journal...
...passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
Well-scrubbed people who catch scabies have one consolation: their itch is probably milder than the type that makes the unwashed scratch...
...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...