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Right wing Warren Winslow gave the Tiger sextet the scare of its life several times on solo dashes down the ice through the whole Bengal team, but to no avail. The Crimson almost scored another marker at the close of the second period when a low puck bounced off Dave Eaton's chest almost into...
...them key Byllesby officers for years. Next day Byllesby & Co. asked SEC to rule that since Byllesby no longer controlled Standard it was exempt from the Holding Company Act. Later these three resigned, were replaced by two trustees having less obvious Byllesby connections, but to no avail...
...game started off slowly as the score see-sawed between the two teams. Columbia was working fast off the backboard, while the Crimson seemed to lack confidence, and worked the ball down to the basket to no avail...
...Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life featuring (to no avail) a childbirth on stage...
...observed in a recent opinion of the Supreme Court that one of the recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...