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...remarked last year, when William and Mary scored on Harvard's fumbling tyros, that the ball had doubtless been carried by Mary. Remembering the jibe, and stung by two defeats this season, Harvard repelled the charging debutante...
...sons of the same pessimistic gentlemen who offered to eat the first steamboat that ever crossed the Atlantic invariably answered, "It can't be done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...
...Doubtless Mrs. Coolidge would recall the inscription on her cornerstone, and be pleased to find many more by the same author graven here and there within the edifice. The author was diminutive twinkle-eyed the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn...
...More precisely, six: Plato, la.; Plato, Pulaski Co., Ky.; Plato, Houghton Co., Mich.; Plato, Minn.; Plato, Mo.; Plato Center, 111. Of these, Plato, Ga., was doubtless the "city" Agathon had in mind. Its population is by far the largest: 238. There are 13 Homers, from Alaska to Texas; one Homer City, (Pa.) ; two Homersvilles (Ga., Ohio). There is no Socrates, no Xantippe, but in Missouri there is a Huzzah...
...over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...