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...many speakers would have been able to surpass this, but for Orator Hitler in his bellowing frenzy of last week the job was easy. "I am indifferent," he cried, "to compliments, threats, warnings, disrespect or disapproval. With trance-like surety, I go the way on which Destiny guides me. . . . Therefore, with His grace. I will act for the Germans and their interests. . . . Nobody shall tell me there is such and such an international institution that I must respect...
...only two Dartmouth victories came in the 200-yard breaststroke, in which E. K. White of the Green showed the way to Bob Heskett and James Munroe of Harvard, and in the drive, where Captain Smith of Dartmouth repeated his triumph of last year to surpass Fitts and Merriam...
Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
With at least one tally in each period the Crimson forward line displayed sufficient brilliance to surpass expectation and equal hope for its initial performance...
While President Conant and the retiring Dean, Roscoe Pound, have not submitted any name to the Corporation, there is a strong feeling that they must find a very unusual man to surpass the assets of Lloyd K. Garrison...