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 A colossus with feet of clay
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 Bio-Colossus is great because it mirrors the attitude of the university itself: our feet are on the ground but our head and our ideas are in the clouds.

 I've heard that my game suits the clay better than the hard courts, even though I don't have too many great results on the clay, ... I totally play like a clay-courter. I'm a baseliner, I don't come in too much and I hit a heavy ball.
  Robby Ginepri

 I expected that we would be playing on clay. The Europeans tend to go for clay. The match is in April, which is the start of the red clay season, so it gives our players a chance to play on the same surface through the French Open.

 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

 Fame: putting someone on a pedestal so you can see his clay feet

 We talk about the physical properties of the clay as we form our bowls and the chemical changes that occur after heat is added during the firing stages. Students create their bowls by rolling clay out at their desks, then placing the clay over forms and molding them.

 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

 Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements. We build people up who have positions of power or visibility and venerate them and then have to show they have feet of clay.

 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

 The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
  Barbara Ward

 We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content. This test is easier than it sounds. Because clay minerals make up the bulk of sediment deposited today, we are saying that it should be largely absent in ancient rocks. And this is just what one finds.

 I'm trying to figure out what's the best way for me to play, and try to get as many matches as possible on clay. The more I do that, the more sure I get about sliding on clay, the points, how they're being played and everything.

 The clay figures don't keep well. They do keep for a year or two, and then the clay cracks up and falls off the skeleton. I guess they could demand a facelift.

 I haven't played on clay this year - but the clay surface always favors us.


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