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...rule the men have worked hard and conscientiously through the winter and spring, and will probably take first or second place in the class races...
First attack catches, dodges, and shoots well as a rule. Occasionally he lets long catches bounce off of the end of his stick instead of scooping them. He works very well with second home...
This is practically the rule in Germany, and if it could be adopted here, the cloud that now lowers on our political horizon would speedily vanish...
...rule of the Association provides that breakfast shall not be sent down until seven minutes after nine o'clock. For four years, up to the last few months, this rule has been adhered to, and very little delay in being served experienced. But within the last few months, all this has been changed, and a new order of things prevails. An order of things under which waiters are kept in line from twenty to forty-five minutes while some mysterious cook below stairs fills the orders. Meanwhile at the tables men sit and munch bread, or losing all patience, adjourn...
...littleness of the man who must have listened to an extremely eloquent, manly and useful lecture, solely for the purpose of finding something to criticise. Our "Mugwump" is sorry "that Mr. Lodge could give us no better advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction. Mr. Lodge said, "Work for the highest and best measures, but when there is no moral question involved do not by insisting on the unattainable lose everything...