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...unsold cars piling up demurrage in freight yards all across the country, had $20,000,000 in debts. By the time Chrysler had rehabilitated Maxwell, it was his company. In 1924 he brought out his first car under his own name, a car with a high speed motor, low slung, built for traffic. It caught public fancy and for the first time its maker began to make money hand over fist...
...fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins- which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms...
...times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct a picture of Professor "Waltz," smoking an unusual under-slung pipe and wearing a hat as he lectures on the Sesenheim idyll. And perhaps correctly they will surmise that the student was bored and undutiful, since he filled the cover with diagrams of football plays...
...Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety...
Freshmen living in the Yard will be deeply grieved to find themselves awakened the first morning at five minutes of seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song until everyone is thoroughly awake, and then it will considerately stop. It is rung by wheel and bell-rope, taking great skill to manipulate it, at seven, quarter of nine, nine, and thenceforth on the hour throughout the day till four. Two other bells, which compete with...