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...score until Halfback Schwartz ran 54 yards down the mud-puddled, sludgy field for a touchdown in the last five minutes. A drenched crowd of 110,000 went wild when Army blocked a Notre Dame punt and Left End King fell on it for a touchdown, but a swarm of blue shirts broke through and blocked the dropkick. Notre Dame 7. Army...
...Leonid meteors, advance guards of a main swarm which appears three times a century, should be looked for in the eastern part of the sky. The shower may last three or four nights. Dr. Fisher stated, and pictures will be taken at the observatory to determine the speed of the meteors and whether they are pieces of a live or dead planet. On November 16, 1929 about ten Leonids were counted during three of the early morning hours...
...this has caused a swarm of Pierce legends in Wall Street. Two samples: Last summer on a very hot day the Pierce men were granted permission to remove their jackets. One unfortunate fellow wore suspenders. A special consultation was held regarding the desirability of his exposing this condition. . . . One employe had to take his invalid wife to the hospital every Tuesday at 2 p.m. He had permission to do this, but was warned to come back always and check out daily with the others "for appearances' sake...
...That episode had put him where he loves to be, on the All-American defensive. It had given him an opening for a brilliantly sarcastic reply to France which he released as soon as he landed in England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans to join in and freshen up New York's rather overdone greeting ceremony and for Boston, on the occasion of its tercentenary, to give him a "Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders...
...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...