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Over Watertown, S. D., an immense flock of dapper Lapland Longspurs* migrated north. The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked. They all sang-until they headed into a freezing layer of air. Then they began tumbling, like feathers from a ripped pillow. Hundreds were chilled to death when they struck the ground. Other managed to reach trees. Where their long claws clutched at bark, they found footage and rested, necks pulled in, eyes squinting miserably...
...dull literature, nothing is duller than the alumni bulletins of universities which one has not attended. Yet persons who were never within gunshot of the University of Pennsylvania were struck by an article in the current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged...
...very day on which he made two home runs as their own time to break loose and wreck a city. It is too bad that some of the news on busy days can't be set in the refrigerator and saved up for display when happenings are duller. If there were closer co-operation between the morning papers this could be accomplished...
...spent his life in a certain work naturally loves that work, and he often fails to remember that to those who have not spent their lives in it, it may have its duller moments. So when he goes out front for his three a week, he must remember that he is in the position of an actor playing to a hostile stand. And the audience should come in early and give him every opportunity to make...
...These rabbits, male and female, known as "Tootsie" and "Tweedledum" respectively, brightened the duller moments of Thaw's life at Matteawan. He pinched them until they squealed, bit them with his yellow teech, chased them with a pole, tossed them 40 feet in air and let them fall on the ground "to see if it would hurt them...