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...lineup, is again the underdog. The Crimson has only three men in the starting lineup today that answered the opening whistle in the Army game last year. But it has Captain Ticknor, the All-American center, and Wood, its brainy quarterback who has lately developed into a triple threat back. The Army counters with a veteran line that practically played as a unit in the game last year and a trio of unsung but experienced Sophomores in the backfield...
...this year but they have an array of backs to watch, and the most deceptive offensive system in the country to combat. In the backfield the manner in which the understudies execute the lateral pass will be one of the deciding factors of the game. But Harvard's chief threat lies in the new plays that have been designed especially for Army and the judgment and resourcefulness Wood shows in calling them
...Committee declined to set itself up as a stage for a candidate to play on for the rest of the campaign." Thereupon the whole State of Illinois became Nominee McCormick's stage from which she reiterated her charges of Committee espionage. To the Committee's threat she retorted: ". . . Having throttled that evidence, four members of the committee now attempt to throttle the press...
Chancellor Brüning stuck to his threat, hammered out for enactment (by decree, if the Reichstag refuses to vote it next week) a Reform program which metal-minded German editors at once called "the iron broom of destiny...
...sprained his foot, I have been treated to an antique hero's chorus, a three-legged limping approach, an uncontrollable wailing and self-lamentation." Bashan pretends to be a mighty hunter before his lord, actually never kills any thing but field mice, though he thinks him self a ravening threat to rabbits. He once caught a pheasant by accident and had no idea what to do with it, was relieved when it went away. Best scene in the book: a description of two strange dogs meeting for the first time, "both with hangdog look, miserable and deeply em barrassed...