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Individually a fast runner and possessed of a hard shot, Wood was held back in his Sophomore year by wildness. During the past season he overcame his fault, and developed a fast center cross to become one of the Crimson's scoring threats...
...bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear him. Even when a stentorian counsel stands nearly opposite the centre of the bench, his words sound jumbled to all the Justices, his voice all false and hollow. The fault, so far as the Bureau of Standards can discover, is too much marble. The remedy: more velvet curtains...
...reserves, his Varsity is no more powerful than last year's team which dropped all but three games. This year, however, he has been carefully developing his material and striving above all to put an aggressive outfit on the floor. In his opinion, lack of aggressiveness was the principal fault of last year's team, and this season he plans to make the Crimson quintet a fighting unit...
...Paul Clark, the undersigned do hereby testify that I am in my right mind and enter the Charles River on the night of December 6, 1935, entirely of my own volition and if I come to grief it is wholly my own fault. Signed, Paul Clark...
...clutching a rifle, sobbing: "I've shot my son. He dared me to." Taken to a hospital, where doctors found him too weak to stand the removal of a bullet which had sheared through one lung and lodged in his liver, Son Jesse gasped: "It was my fault, I guess. It was an accident." Next morning Mrs. Livermore sobered up enough to blame it all on a letter she had received from her onetime husband. "He said I kept his letters from our sons," she babbled miserably. "He said a lot of things. It upset me, unstrung...