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...Yale, favored as the two most powerful outfits in the tourney, will meet at the same time as the Crimson-Tiger contest, and the winner is more than likely to take the title. The University while not expected by the dopesters to triumph, is conceded a chance as a dark-horse, and if it gets by the first round, it will have an excellent chance to figure prominently in the championship...
...fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three weeks before birth. Occasionally, a child is born with the primitive tail still external (it not having atrophied and become internal as is usual). In such cases, when the child is glad...
...horse distributor" of electric vacuum cleaners. While he himself canvassed, his sole employee-a girl stenographer-ran his entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built...
Fricka, wife of the King of the Gods, in the earthly simulacrum of a Polish soprano named Olzewska, stood in the Vienna Staatsoper, lifting a curve of song that flashed over the dark orchestration like a silver simitar. Another voice was also audible. Through the cadences of Wagner's music, the brandished curve of Olzewska's voice, it issued from the wings, rising and falling in charming periods, punctuated with little ripples of laughter, like :he voice of a woman telling a funny story...
...prefer to attribute this awful vagueness to inefficiency rather than malice aforethought. The tutors are apparently quite as much in the dark as the seniors, and quite as much harrassed. Some say "Saturday", some "Monday", and some frankly say, "God knows when...