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...thing, but this fall has found such an increased activity that the question of its future is a topic of considerable moment. No amateur sport has created so much discussion upon its entrance into the professional field as American football. Started only about fifty years ago, the sport has grown from one which attracted only a few undergraduates, both as players and spectators, to one which brings out from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five candidates for the varsity team in the biggest colleges of America, and spectators in such numbers that many of the big games are unable...
...scene in the reception room of the Fortune Teller, in the scene at the dress rehearsal in the theatre, in the hilarious dinner table scene in the hilarious dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus...
...stamping ground of the aboriginal Maoris, who manufactured there a native pigment with which they smeared their bodies, as did the early Britons. In 1861 Dunedin was the scene of one of the mad scrambles for gold which sent so many adventurers flocking to New Zealand. Now it has grown decorous, sprouted an embryo culture. As the Exposition got under way local citizens announced with pride that they had financed the whole venture except for a grant of ?25,000 from the Dominion Government...
...close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord, evidently feared a similar rise in the rate of the New York Reserve Bank and threw overboard their motor shares in haste...
...nearly grown up play; for the enjoyment of a pleasant status in late adolescence with a minimum of toil and discipline, delaying the serious work of life; for participation in an enchanting variety of congenial activities--athletics in particular--and the making of "desirable" contacts and friendships...