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...Cambridge had any college songs. Also there was a dearth of organized cheering. It seems that they have no organized cheers in the English universities. At one point near Bull's Head Tavern I did hear a gentleman wearing the Dark Blue colors exclaim in a well modulated shout. "Well rowed, Oxford!" but immediately afterward he seemed to feel that he had forgotten himself and lapsed into silence...
...deaf that his intimates must shout close to his ear, so old that diet and digestion are matters of hourly concern to him, so famed that his stalest bromides on national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great...
...illegal in spirit, as the Columbia professors point out, but are sharpened on both sides. Nothing would better please the agitator than to supply him with such graphic examples of "capitalistic oppression". Let Mr. Whalen beware lest he throw Brother Rabbit right into the briar patch where he can shout taunts in earnest at the blue-coated cossacks...
...license applications under consideration. He submitted a list of 19 power companies with $27,000,000 in their capital accounts which the Commission questioned. He grew abusive toward Solicitor Russell, openly charged him with running away from his personal debts in Montana. Mr. Russell jumped to his feet to shout back that he was paying off his debts, incurred by long illness, as rapidly "as the Lord lets...
Like navigation, electrodynamics, foil fencing is an exact science. Its only drawback is the necessity for sharp-eyed judges crouching on the sidelines to shout "touche" every time a fencer's sword point touches the plastron of his adversary...