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...lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...
Murrel plunged for the first touchdown, and Red Cagle threw a 19-yard pass to Hutchinson which gained another. Stanford's mammoth Fleishhacker and agile Smalling each smashed across and Stanford also made a safety. First half score: Stanford, 14; Army, 13. Then the men in cardinal and white began drubbing the men in gold. Reverses, plain, fancy and bogus-elaborate new maneuvers by Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner-carried the Stanford team three times to the Army goal. Twice again Chuck Smalling bashed across; once again Fleishhacker asserted his 220 pounds. Smalling left the field with an ovation such...
...limestone cave 30 miles from what is now Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...
Vonckx, who started from search, threw the weight 46 feet 6 inches, after which was Bennett's toss of 41 feet 10 inches, including a 13 foot handicap. Finlayson, with a three foot lead was measured at 40 feet 2 inches...
...spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President Borno announced that he would not seek a third term...