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...condition, and maintaining a high standard of scholarship. "Individual success," declared Coach Farrell, "depends on cooperation with the coaches and with the other members of the squad. Inexperienced men should not feel at a loss, since we have developed innumerable stars from men who never even saw a pair of spiked shoes before. I can guarantee a place on the squad to every man who comes to practice regularly, obeys the training rules in spirit as well as in letter, studies hard, and pitches in on the work here for all he is worth...
...press the complaint, [felonious assault] and he asks your permission to have it withdrawn." "What had they been drinking?" asked the magistrate. "The usual stuff." "Will you shake hands?" asked the magistrate. Grinning sheepishly, the two philosophers shook hands. ""Case dismissed," said the magistrate, who reflected, as the pair left arm in arm, that philosophy is thicker than alcohol. News writers drew the obvious parallel of Damon & Phintias...
...thieves before. First he sold me a pair of socks, then said...
...Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
...grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her 'wings,' which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them...