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...valuable alter egos. On one occasion, when a general persisted in arguing an issue which Kyes considered closed, "Jolly Roger" reached out and flicked the four stars on the officer's shoulder straps with his fingertips. "Look," he said, "I didn't come down here to shovel snow. I came down here to pluck stars...
Sifting through smoking rubble with the help of a claw shovel, searchers found 34 corpses. Of the survivors, 29 were hospitalized...
...This." Thorpe tried his hand at golf (low 80s), bowling (over 200), was proficient at hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle shooting, squash, handball and horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after Jim had sold the movie...
Every so often, without swinging a pick or lifting a shovel, professional diggers discover scientific treasures. Browsing through the modest collections of amateur "rock hounds," they have found many a rare fossil, often misclassified and almost as obscure as if it were still buried in prehistoric shale. Last winter, hoping for just such a find, veteran Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson took time out from a lecture tour to visit the private museum of Alonzo Wesley Hancock, a retired Oregon postman...
This, of course is not done. Instead, Freshmen rush through the themes in a day or so often juggling two at a time. The training in good research and careful exposition that should come with papers is too often sacrificed to the exigencies of time--the golden shovel replacing the imposing array of facts. Thus, although this year's freshman is writing more than past first year groups, his superiority in expressing ideas is questionable...