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...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
Mateo Ruiz had never been more than a paper-shuffler at Pathfinder, knew almost nothing about the technical side of rubber-growing, curing and production. But an order was an order. He went to work on Dec. 8, 1943, well within hailing distance of roving bands of Japanese troops...
...Oldest shuffler was 82-year-old Edward Ranney, retired postal clerk from Kenmore, N. Y. Youngest was 17-year-old Dick Townsend of Grand Ledge, Mich. But the player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida...
Gamecocks kill each other with thrusts of their legs. There are two types of fighters: the shuffler (who strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...
Roswell Parker Angler '97, lecturer on Psychology; Aristides Evangelism Protrudes '11, instructor in Greek and Latin; Harold Joseph Laski, instructor in History; Leonard Thompson Troland '14, instructor in Psychology; Samuel Eliot Morison '08, lecturer on History; Mortimer Phillips Macon '99, lecturer on Philosophy; Henry Maurice Shuffler '05, lecturer on Philosophy; George Sharon, lecturer on the History of Science...