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...football of the Mauve Decade that the brightest stars shone, and the greatest machines rolled over all opposition. The famous "Deland Flying Wedge" of Harvard was answered by the "Guards Back", devised by George Woodruff of Pennsylvania. From 1894 on, this formation crushed Harvard teams under foot for four years. By sheer force of weight and spirit the University elevens were able to keep the score low, but the Quakers always scored enough to take the game...
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...Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
Life's Tenacity. Professor Lorande L. Woodruff of Yale has a microorganism, paramecium, in captivity. It has reproduced itself 8,500 generations (the equivalent of 250,000 years for humans), and has yet died no natural death. Dr. Thomas H. Morgan of Columbia found that 1/250th part of a worm will regenerate and become younger than the original worm. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research has kept a chicken's heart alive and growing for 15 years, longer than any ordinary chicken ever lived. Dr. Carrel sailed for a vacation on the Continent last...
...gentlemen who offered to eat the first steamboat that ever crossed the Atlantic invariably answered, "It can't be done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...