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...them had something to add to Neville's observations. London Correspondent Gene Farmer reported an unusual kind of trouble with electrical appliances. There are about 165 different kinds of wall sockets in use in the London area, he said. Before they bought a new plug for their sewing machine, Mrs. Farmer had to decide which room to put it in. Now, if that room is cold, he said, "she either freezes or doesn't sew, because the plug won't fit into any other socket...
Penn, however, dominated after intermission. The Quakers extended their lead, 48 to 43, by the end of the third quarter, and then broke loose with 28 points in he final frame to sew up the game...
Harvard raced off to a 17 to 14 first quarter margin. By halftime, the Crimson had widened the gap to 32 to 27, and at the third quarter, the score read 48 to 38. Then the five opened up with a 23-point splurge to sew...
...forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin...
...Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments to be cut up. At sunset he and his helpers were still stitching, as more and more of the faithful pledged themselves to go on the Crusade...