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...they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...
...foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here, now that one there, now this one here...
While Boylston Professors of Rhetoric and Oratory may tether their cows in Cambridge Common for nothing, others connected with the University will be paying a charge of one cent for 12 minutes, five cents per hour, for parking their automobiles in Square environs when the meters start collecting next week...
...lesson that even the duller members of the class could grasp. Britain, its Government had announced, no longer possessed the resources to continue its comparatively puny military aid to Greece. India had all but left the Empire. Burma and Malaya were going. South Africa was tugging at the tether. In the citadel itself were hunger, cold and socialism...
That the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory has the right to tether a cow in Cambridge Common was denied by Boylston Professor Spencer in an an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. What's more he seems to be right, despite Time Magazine's quoting of the legend which was also quoted by the CRIMSON last Tuesday...