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...came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life, The cause of right to seek. But age is creeping on us As we ponder week by week...
...Tick-tick-tick 132 minutes passed. Precisely at two minutes past high noon Her Imperial Majesty was delivered of an infant 49 centimetres (1.6 ft.) long and weighing 3,365 grams (7.4 lb.). The municipal siren of Tokyo screeched, the National Radiocasting System went into action, the Official Gazette got out one of its exceedingly rare "extras...
Ever since the first Gothic spires rose over the Isis it has been the pleasant custom of the undergraduates of Oxford to purchase their doublets and smallclothes, their ales, wines, liquors and later their cigars, "on tick'' (credit). It is an equally venerable custom for Oxford undergraduates to leave their Alma Mater heavily in debt to the merchants of the city...
...years the County had spent more than $250,000 in eradicating the Texas fever tick which had blocked progress of livestock and dairy development. But cattle would ramble across the border from Louisiana (where no eradication measures were practiced) and re-infest Pike County stock as fast as they had been purged. The McComb Enterprise advocated the building of a double wire fence the length of the County line; was met by ridicule, hostility. It fought...
...little early to talk about Yale, games, even to think about them. In fact the Vagabond was so pleasantly surprised with the news last evening that he lay awake all night listening to the four faced clock tick just over his bed in Memorial Tower. After this warning against undue premature excitement there is no reason for not going now into a few details...