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...week ago Saturday Princeton defeated Yale in track 70-05. In the Stadium two days ago Harvard fell before the Tiger athletes by a score of 70 1-3-64 2-3. On Monday, June 15, when the Crimson faces Yale at New Haven, indications point to a meet to be decided by the final event on the program...
...THEATRE), whom he met at the Big Tent's door. He, his grandchildren and their maternal grandmother took seats in the third row not far from Mrs. Coolidge. Round the big ring slipped the introductory pageant of horses, elephants, clowns. The old man, Bear Coat, suddenly fell backward. A physician at hand caught him, carried him beneath the seats, took him outdoors. He was dead. There was little commotion. Mrs. Coolidge continued absorbed in the acrobats...
...sprinkle of rain fell; thunder stamped in Heaven; the webbing went up. 'They're 'rorf," shouted William Gibbs McAdoo, Marshall Field, Knute Rockne, Harry F. Sinclair, Walter J. Salmon, many Elks, Knights, a haberdasher, a sculptor, 75,000 assorted odd fellows and their ladies...
...smother at the first turn, flashed a horse ("Singlefoot," screamed Coach Rockne), fell back before another ("Captain Hal," howled Owner Kaiser). Where was Quatrain? Waiting for an opening. Where was Kentucky Cardinal? Nowhere. Another horse was out now, pressing at the withers of the gallant Captain Hal, at his shoulder, at his muzzle, was clearly bumping himself like a black witch rabbit. Only one man now believed that Quatrain had a chance: he was Sande, bent to the shoulder of Flying Ebony. He could outrun Captain Hal he thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse...
...distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next big bee that might happen along would be well received, even if he alighted...