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However, certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution. Since he will be a Protestant, he must realize that many Catholic and Jewish students will have already pitched one strike past him. Thus, he will have to do more than smother the natural desire of any clergyman to propagate the creed he has been trained in. He must go out of his way to assure that any "religious guidance" he dispenses represents the lowest common denominator of credo--in fact, no more than the same social gospel PBH has represented...
...snooty bank clerks. But suddenly the god Jupiter comes down and offers Poindexter some advice. "Be wisely selfish," says Jupiter, "catch your flies with sugar." So Poindexter suppresses his natural reactions to various people, fixes a blank grin of confidence on his face, and composes adulatory remarks to smother everyone with. He gets what he wants from others by feigning interest in their problems and remaining inwardly aloof and calculating. The film teaches that in this way we can all "cash in at the bank of human relations and win sound dividends...
Hubbard knocked in a loose puck in the first minute of the final period after Greeley had soloed in, crashing into the goalie who came out of the net. Wheeler counted again at 5:48 for Brown when Crimson goalie Brad Richardson came way out of the cage to smother a loose puck, but let it get away. Clasby ended the scoring on a neat solo halfway through the period, faking Copp out, and tucking it in behind...
...second goal was scored when left wing Tom Little got around the Crimson fullbacks and made a perfect cross to Hall in the goal mouth. Craven tried to smother the ball, but he slipped and fell two feet from the ball. Hall also slipped, but while the ball remained motionless recovered in time to hit the empty cage...
...late as 1945, Infant Care expressed fear that babies might smother in their cribs. Now it notes that this is most unusual: sudden deaths are generally the result of a runaway infection...