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...table. Reason for this phenomenon, which has exasperated many a driver, is the bulging of the substance filling the expansion joints between the big rectangles of concrete. Like most solids, concrete expands in hot weather, contracts in cold. Hence the joints require a resilient substance which will fill the gap completely no matter how the concrete behaves. Most substances tried by road-builders have had two faults-they bulged in hot weather, left openings for seepage in cold...
...mistake. Since the invitation cannot be rescinded, Yale's press agent (Eddie Nugent) pounds out enthusiastic copy. Texas Coach Slug Winters (Jack Haley) is enthusiastic, too, until his tough wife Bessie (Patsy Kelly) fractures his star passer's leg. In time's nick Slug fills the gap with a barefoot Texas melon-grower named Amos (Stuart Erwin) who can toss a cantaloupe incredible distances, learns to do even better with a football. Despite the intervention of a blizzard, the charms of Arline Judge and a good deal of assorted harmonizing, Amos wins the Yale game by taking...
...because he had failed to win in his last six starts, had been sold at bargain rates two days before. After only 48 hours in the Jacobs barn, Night Sprite knew exactly what to do. He plunged across the finish line first by a head, having opened up a gap of ten lengths at the start...
...clumsy persistence in trying to formulate stop-gap measures to replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must...
Plan B men should be required to take an additional course to fill the tutorial gap, and this requirement should keep their work up to a sufficiently high level to warrant giving the same degree for both types of preparation. Owing to technical differences, however, separate general examinations should be given. As the Student Council Committee Report of 1931 suggested, the honor student's demands are best met by a "speculative" examination, while a "factual" one is better for the mediocre students. To suit both needs in a single examination is nearly impossible...