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...understand how sharply football differs from other games one has only to glance at the Harvard record for the current season. It has been less than four weeks since Harvard was defeated by Geneva, a college of little football reputation, and less than three weeks since it was defeated by Holy Cross, a college surely not of the first rank. Yet, under the tutelage of one Horween, Harvard had learned enough football by Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, which was said to have one of the best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team...
...Count proceeded to make a show of his complete innocence by resigning with his cabinet. The Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, thereupon paraded his confidence in Premier Bethlen by refusing to accept his resignation. My guide winked assurance that the Premier and Regent of the 'kingless kingdom* of Hungary understand one another perfectly...
...still able to perform at 70 (he was born in 1856). Most of all it emphasized an injunction Mr. Scripps had once given him: "I want you to clean the questionable and dirty medical ads out of my papers. Clean 'em out, no matter who yells, understand?" Then the Press comment: "There were yells but the objectionable ads were removed...
Fumbling at critical moments, and the inability to understand an aerial attack, did not prevent Cornell's team from beating Michigan State...
...corner of old Germany, the merchant had to speak at least six languages. The Dutch rate high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon, Java, the islands of the South Seas, does not attempt to force the natives to learn his own languages; he learns theirs and gets the business...