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...raised to 7 ft. ⅜ in. Dumas, a Negro like the other two qualifiers, poised himself, took eight carefully measured steps and took off. His foot caught the bar and dragged it into the sawdust. Dumas drew on his sweat clothes and strolled to one end of the stadium. It was late in the evening. He was the last competitor, and some 35,000 eyes were on him as he walked and thought for several minutes in a strange sort of solitude under the flaring floodlights. Then he came back, peeled off his sweat clothes and squinted...
...rugged course and the student has to devour his books, but he need never sweat his grades because at U.C.L.A. med school there are none. If a man is doing badly, a faculty member will advise him. If he wonders how he is getting along, he has only to ask a prof, who will find out and tell him. Under U.C.L.A.'s system, only one student has been flunked, out of the first 196 enrolled...
...left of the green behind a sand trap after his second shot. Middlecoff puffed on a cigarette for a moment, then chipped deftly. The ball rolled dead two feet from the pin. He holed out with a 281 for 72 holes, then headed for the clubhouse to sweat out the finishes of his challengers...
Fresh twilight gusts whipped the Charles River Basin into an unrowable sweat, and the freshman race did not get under way on the improvised upstream course until well after 6 p.m. The Yardlings also won, by slightly less than a length...
Parsons' heavy prose has exaggerated the complexities and difficulties of his generalizations. "If I were he," one professor claims, "I'd spend a whole year revising each book. He just doesn't stop to sweat out expressions." As a result, Toward a General Theory of Action was nicknamed. "The Yellow Peril," and the publishers called in a graduate student to clarify the writing. This graduate student later became one of Parsons' closest collaborators, but not before "Parsonian Prose" had become a permanent part of the faculty vocabulary...