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...towed the bodies to the river, cut the ice and threw them into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kolchak's End | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...visitors threw a scare into the first-year men in the second half when they caged a remarkable succession of long shots, and went into the lead. The Crimson teamplay and Slocum's uncanny shooting put the Freshmen back into the lead, however, and they were never headed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1928 FORWARDS FLASH IN BASKETBALL OPENER | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Illiteracy, like all evils, is sometimes a blessing. So thinks the Russian Ministry of Education, at all events. Of late the Ministry took the Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Russia | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...then mother threw another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...hopelessly namby-pamby as the two undergraduates in the first act who slap, each other on the back and begin all their remarks with "Well, you know, old man".... Messrs. Glibert and Morgan farther removed this dialogue from the sublime by the would-be kittenish manner in which they threw boxing gloves at each other, always taking the greatest pains to miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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