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...times in the second and third quarters, the Blues scored eight and ten pennies respectively before the Crimson could sink a basket. The losers made only one field goal in the second period and took them six minutes to score that...
...general magazine, U.S.A. is "devoted to analyzing, discussing and interpreting American affairs . . . for serious people . . . who care enough about what is going on in their country to bother to read about it." With a press run of 88,000 copies on the first issue, N.A.M. is ready to sink $190,000 this year into publishing its 25? magazine, will take no ads. It hopes to find a large audience outside of NAMsters, who will get U.S.A. automatically...
...prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart into running the guns of a German fort, shooting perilous rapids down to a lake patrolled by an enemy gunboat. Her object is to sink the gunboat with a homemade torpedo...
...matter whether they should turn out to be joyful or disastrous, will increase his power to write." The characterization: "All writers, even those who bask in the splendor of a 15th reprinting, remain mentally unbalanced." After a lifelong career blowing literary soap bubbles, Writer Cabell feels lucky to "sink, cackling thinly, into an amiable senescence...
...another occasion, the tub in his old bathroom began to sink through the floor when he was in it. He asked the madam what she would have thought if he had fallen into the Red Room when she was having one of her receptions for the ladies of the D.A.R. She didn't think it was funny, and wanted to slap his face...