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Noted names, famous formations, and sanguinary struggles fill the history of a 24-year series of gridiron contests between the University and the University of Pennsylvania. Twenty games were played between 1881 and 1905, and the Crimson hosts bore off the laurel and the palm in 13 encounters...
Lewis turned the cavalry into tackles and ends, and massed his backs in a solid group behind the center. The backs bore the thrust of the head of the wedge, and the tackles and ends swept in to demolish the sides of the Quaker wedge. The play was stopped, Pennsylvania was stopped, and victory lighted on the Crimson banner again...
...founder of "Fall's Business College for Young Men" at Nashville, Tenn., who reached wealth, fame and a place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
...Harvester machines are complicated. Inventor Luce's device is simpler and accomplishes less work. But it is no less effective within its range. To demonstrate it at the Waco Cotton Fair, he hitched a mule to a two-wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with...
Immediately there broke out a hullabaloo. Fighting with chairs, clubs, bottles, 300 Nationlist opponents of General Smuts drove his supporters to the wall and captured the platform, where they sang and danced to the sound of the tearing of British flags used to decorate the hall. Many bleeding faces bore evidence of the affray...