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Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game...
...poet, journalist and orator, Muñoz Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...Mystery. In the Her-Ex city room, bald, stoop-shouldered Jack Campbell breathes down the neck of City Editor Aggie Underwood (TIME, June 30, 1947) as the copy comes in, picks every picture himself, likes to ask her: "What have we got for the stenographers today...
Messner, who has taken only one Social Relations course (Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's "Contemporary Sociological Theory), said he wroth the examination "from the point of view of the Harvard man who doesn't stoop to mere detail...
...Lordship, a gaunt, stoop-shouldered six-footer, hovered over all calculations like a specter. Said a Liverpool stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race...