Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...
...today's CRIMSON of a minimum board charge of $7.50 in the new Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these are the meals which...
...Peroy and Garsson, who followed up with a foils bout. There was no regular judging in any of the matches except that of the Lane brothers. The contestants chatted with each other and the audience as they fenced, and the sheer informality of the affair went a long way to making the evening a great success...
Recent and as yet unpublished studies of a star cloud in Aquila show that practically all the stars are of the same type as the sun--a very unusual circumstance, since Milky Way stars elsewhere have mainly been of the hotter classes. It is unknown whether this anomalous result, which involves tens of thousands of stars, means that we have here a star cloud of dwarfs like the sun, or if it means that we are dealing with a peculiar assemblage of yellowish giant stars at a special stage in the evolution of a stellar system...
...Kreutzberg is the better technician--there were few who denied that. His gestures have a definiteness, a clarity, that Miss Georgi's lacked. But inspired as they are in much the same way by the same sort of thing, they make an ideal pair, and Miss Georgi makes up in a fiery temperament what she lacks in technique...