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...Wayne B. Munn," said Coach W. E. Lewis of the University wrestling team is physically more than we had anticipated. He is a splendid type of the big man, and he has brawn, not beef. He has a charming personality, a clean cut American. He talks like a trained thinker, probably because of his college education...
...from the day it had been sealed some 4000 years ago. The passage was cleared out and we entered the door of the burial chamber, deep under the hill, the first men to come there since the last of the burial rites. Everything has remained untouched. The quarter of beef was still hanging on the wall; the urns of drink were still in their places; apparently nothing had been disturbed...
Small tables between the seats in the passenger car were loaded with roast beef, spaghetti, Navy beans. No smoking and no throwing of anything overboard were almost the only severities to be endured. But when the Gulf was reached, the air grew bumpy, and fog was replaced by warm drizzling rain, changing to a downpour when the islands were approached. The Los Angeles had passed through fog and rain without difficulty, but when the port of Hamilton was actually sighted at 4:45 on Saturday morning, she was water-logged and very heavy. The S.S. Patoka, with...
...years that action was taken. Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House. He gave the word to Attorney General Knox. First there were investigations and publicity, then prosecutions. One after another, trusts were knocked on the head and compelled to disintegrate. In 1904 and 1905, the Northern Securities, the Beef Trust, the Addyston Pipe Co. were dispatched. Later came the Standard Oil case (which lasted for five years before the company lost and was dissolved) and the American Tobacco Co. case...
...that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended its run, the passenger, well-fed, well-rested...