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...moon shone bright over Portland, Ore. and a young man named Thomas Kelly sat on a campus bench reading Shelley by the light of the moon. To the cops who saw him there, this seemed highly suspicious conduct. Kelly didn't think his conduct needed any defense or explanation and he couldn't produce a draft card. So they jugged him. Said one policeman: "See if you can take that, Lord Byron...
...Florida the sun shone brightly on a group of old men. There was 76-year-old Bill Green, a little deafer and shakier than he was last year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...
Mexico, especially the ancient capital, was abrim with activity, but not with economic health. The winter sun shone brightly on streets jammed with new automobiles, on the white stone and plate glass of tall buildings; it gave life and movement to the lavishly plumed hats of the well-dressed wives of the prosperous on their way to tea at Sanborn's. But the scene was deceptive. The new President knew it, would have to face...
...Jack Fisher of the ubiquitious Fisher brothers. Both of them have looked good in the early drills, and both will see action in the Connecticut contest--and all others. Left guard is being held down by Nick Rodis, another six-footer. Rodis hails from Nashua, New Hampshire, where he shone in three sports, and he comes to Cambridge with three years of football on service teams behind him. Backing up the leaders in that center of the line are a host of capable replacements, including Coach Al McCoy's son Don at center, and Bob Drennan, Jim Feinberg, Charlie Gudaitis...
...practical works, the U.S. had shone. Before the war, the Philippines had over 3,500 miles of first-class roads, a modern educational program, and the largest duty-free market in the world. Filipino health was about, the best in the Orient: in 35 years, cholera, smallpox and bubonic plague had been wiped out; the population had increased from seven to 16 million, and the average height of the "tao" (John Doe) from...