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...your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Pentagon Jungle | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...more grounds for believing an upset possible than the 32-0 Army stamped might seem to warrant. Witnesses of the Crimson eleven clicking off plays in practice sessions prier to that game can't help but feel that the Harlow trained boys have a punch they couldn't uncock against Army. Whether it was the rain, or just a bad case of stage fright doesn't matter now-there is very little use in crying over the 32 points cropped by the Army mule from Cambridge turf last Saturday. The important question is whether or not this latent Crimson strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth's in Town Again With Strong Squad, But Crimson Is Primed for Upset | 10/24/1936 | See Source »

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