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Whereupon, M. Champion, the interviewer goes on to relate, began to laugh at the thought of poor backward France, where people are less puritan but more virtuous than in free but dry America. His opinion of modern American literature as compared with French, was likewise not very high...
...getters did it. Until it was all over the Neyada legislature did not realize that they had reduced the time of necessary in Nevada for prospective divorcees from six to three months. Again American pluck and daring has set the golden West several jumps ahead of the backward Latins of France and Mexico...
...appointment of Shaughnessy who is the leading Rugby football coach in Canada is especially significant in view of the forecasted development of American football into a more open style of game not dissimilar to Rugby on account of the recent ruling making incomplete lateral and backward passes dead...
...shorter time when the student was in hypnotic sleep. This is a great lead to those who want to know How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them to the examination in a somnambulistic trance stocked with formulas, epitomes and anthologies...
...change which Farrell disapproved of was that made in the specifications for the standards in the high jump and pole vault. The new standards required by the I. C. A. A. A. A. permit the crossbar to fall off either backward or forward, and the bar rests on a support 1 1-2 inches by 2 3-8 inches, instead...