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...then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came a crash of glass and a mighty splash-the animal diving through a window into the choppy harbor...
Placid as a still pool has been the great U. S. political issue of Power in recent months. But last week there was dropped into the subject an incident which came from such an eminence, with such publicity, that though the actual splash quickly subsided, the ripples seemed almost certain to be perceivable, perhaps as waves, long later in U. S. history...
...eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with busy little brains. His resultant comment upon life and letters may possibly splash into this column...
Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...
...doesn't mind leaping puddles and dodging the splash of autos as he crosses the Square, for there is at least an even chance of reaching the other side without going in above the ankles; but somehow it doesn't seem equitable that Fate has inevitably decreed the sacrifice of neatly pressed trousers and well shined shoes at the altar of learning...