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Whatever the answer to the problem may be, let's take a more positive attitude towards College affairs. Proving that the Harvard man is a shade above Joe College requires a little more than a well-tailored lapel. David B. Wilson...
Chapel Hill: Does Davis Poplar still spread its shade over campus at University of North Carolina...
Minor actors repeatedly stole the show. New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia did it by raising a hand and commanding, "Come out, sun," when a cloud put the City Hall square in shade. The cloud passed. The sun came out, and the crowd almost killed itself laughing. Crowds along the streets politely applauded the Admiral. But they squealed at the sight of Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, giggled and waved as a 17-year-old marine winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor bawled from a jeep: "Come and kiss me, girls...
...sunny morning, at a North Carolina crossroads marked by a ruined chapel on a hill, a traveler climbed wearily from his horse. There, in the shade of a big poplar tree, William Richardson Davie, the future governor of the state, took a long, cool draught from the jug beside him, and gazed about. "Here," he said to himself, "we will put our new university...
King Clode summoned the Royal Astronomer (who studied the solar system through pink lenses), the Royal Clockmaker (who kept his sundials in the shade and whose clocks wouldn't strike twelve), and the Royal Recorder (who never let courtiers borrow the History of Sorcery from the Royal Library without first filling out a slip...