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...print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tne New School House | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...police dog scampered beside the car in which she was taken away. He wagged his tail beside the grave in which Jule Price was buried. Remembering things she had loved once, and might still need, he took them to her one by one, carrying them from a cedar chest in the nursery to the Berlin Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bull v. Romero | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Down the final stretch the chest of the sturdy Penn runner showed a yard and then two yards, ahead. The Red and Blue broke the worsted a yard and a half before the Crimson-jerseyed athete. The time of 1 minute, 53 seconds, set a new intercollegiate mark. Bingham's time, 1-5 of a second slower, still stands as the Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director of Harvard Athletics Protagonist in Tense Drama on Track in 1916--Pushed Meredith to Record | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...sheer immensity of such a sum would constitute the best reason why it should not exist as a political "war chest"; but enemies of Mr. George, having failed to make him disclose the significant total, began some six months ago to hound him about where the money came from in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Cowardly Slander | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...remembered that Shaw at 71 excels in back somersaults from the high springboard. It is to be hoped that the occasion never arrives with Wells in the water and Shaw on the dock: Mr. Wells would doubtless receive a weighted life preserver, while Shaw was using the chest carry to bring Mr. Pavloff ashore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEANWHILE | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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