Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Neither Washington nor Colgate has played Harvard before, although Colgate, a university of about 1,300 in Hamilton, New York, has met many Ivy League teams in the past. After two poor seasons, the Red Raiders have come back this year and beaten Western Reserve and Holy Cross after an opening game loss to Army...
...Huey joined the paper in the fall of 1929, after the former prognosticatory expert, Joe Forecast, had quit to get married. Huey's first season was an auspicious one, for he was correct on three out of four predictions. It was only in the past few years that the Sage began to loss his occult powers. Last season he missed on eight out of nine predictions...
...smiles, once more made the long walk up the stone steps to the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square. There, with his wife always at his side, Alger Hiss had gone through two of the most thoroughly publicized trials in U.S. history, for a perjury which involved past espionage. Last week the Hisses appeared in court again, this time to hear his lawyer argue the appeal from the five-year prison sentence Hiss got last January...
...were riding a bicycle. Both arms and legs may move, as if the patient were trying to run on all fours. He may see whole constellations of stars, or orange suns, and have vivid dreams. The patient does not, as in psychoanalysis, prattle endlessly about his past. Each treatment lasts only five or six minutes. The patient may get as many as a hundred of them, gradually becoming more relaxed...
Napoleon remained a logician, in his fashion, to the bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...