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Most of the new governors were oldtime politicians past middle age who had worked up through inferior jobs to the top of the state pile. Most of them by birth and breeding were close to the plain people who had elected them. Most of them, as "outs" fighting "ins" had promised a "new deal" in the campaign. Every last one of them in their inaugural addresses or first legislative messages hammered hard on a common theme: Economy-economy-economy to save their states from bankruptcy...
...pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
...have a popcorn machine, you know how fast the machine converts popcorn to fluffy balls. If you measure the pile of popped corn, you know how long the machine has been working, if it has been operated at a constant rate of production."-Tufts' Alfred Church Lane. With many such "ifs" Professor Lane estimates the present age of uraninite as 1,070,000,000 years, of pitchblende as 1,300,000,000 years.* From those two estimates he sets the age of the Earth at between two and three billion years...
...score was Colgate 6, Brown 0 The ball was on the Colgate 1-yd. line. There was time for just one more play in the first half. Brown's 162-lb. Quarterback Robert Ramsay Chase took the ball. There was a squirming pile of players, a moment of silence while the referee examined the position of the ball. It was still two inches from the goal line...
Although last year's team did not pile up a particularly impressive list of victories, it came very close to beating such teams as Navy, to which it lost by two points, it was nosed out by a strong Pittsburgh quintet by only three points, and was downed by the championship Eli five by the slim margin of four points. Accordingly, with only four regulars lost through graduation, and with several good players coming up from the Freshman quintet of last season, the prospects for a good season this year seem extraordinarily bright. But on the other hand, it must...