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...earth-convulsing behemoth, which once...
...loss of the initial game was not so much an evidence of complete hopelessness in the Crimson situation as it was of the strength and effectiveness showed by the small and compact squad of Geneva athletes led by two or three outstanding men such as Hubbard, the behemoth of the Covenanters line, Flenihen, a smashing, never-saydie halfback who could pass with some degree of accuracy as well as run, and Schancheon, a heady all around quarterback. What the red jersied players did show on their first appearance, was clean handling of the ball in the backfield, plenty of willingness...
...napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction and restoration of his future wife's aunt's parrot; an occasional square meal. The Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars...
...Cape Town, he would not have known that Stanford had not beaten California for 20 years, but if he had awakened in Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...
Golfer Tolley, behemoth of Britain, open champion of France, onetime amateur champion of England, captain of the lately defeated British Walker Cup team, has, like many another sport notable, thriftily put his prominence to account. A book bearing Tolley's name on its spine has appeared in U. S. book stalls...