Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
...minutes every morning music will charm the ears of distracted students about to set foot upon the stormy path of final examinations, it was learned last night. On each week-day morning during the two weeks of the final examination period, an organ recital similar to the ones given last year will be given in Appleton Chapel...
...laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...
...team averages show marked provement over the figures shown by the University nine at a similar stage of last season. Records of the end of May, 1926, show that at that time the batting mark stood at .258, nearly forty points below the current figures, while the fielding averaged .939, seven points lower than the defensive average shown by the nine to date this year...
...first: young and ambitious authors are likely to be much more successful if they write about something with which they have had some personal contact and concerning which they are at least adequately informed. This, being a literary truism, needs a practical demonstration, such as this contest and others similar, to prove its soundness. Where the rub comes is the editorial insistence on college stories...