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...first tackling dummy ever faced by any squad. For the first time in football history the team at Springfield left the field between the halves for a medical going-over and rest in a temporary house erected just outside the grandstand. Yale, on seeing Harvard leave the field, betook themselves in the old and very cold barge which had brought them to the field...
...seemed a good moment for the world's most persuasive broadcaster to draw close to the people of the U. S. So late Sunday night the President betook himself for the first time since Sept. 30 and the seventh time in two years to the firesides of "My Friends." Sounding a little querulous at first, he soon became strong, brave, confident as ever. ¶ Housing Administrator James A. Moffett, having resigned (TIME, April 15), indiscreetly paid a farewell call at the White House. Once more he fell prey to Franklin Roosevelt's persuasion, announced that instead of resigning...
...memorable occasion he did ramble forth into the byways of Cambridge in search of the fresh inspiration of spring, and betook himself to the banks of the Charles river. For were not the Yard pigeons puffing themselves out in proud glory, and were not the board walks taken up? And did not the spring zephyrs ruffle delightfully the surface of the Charles and the dresses of the doxies along its banks? But no more could these aphrodisiacs of spring enliven him, for now they aroused within him a palling cloud of defensive inactivity, which made the light breeze seem vicious...
...sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...Ford had $7,500,000 in Union Guardian Trust Co., $22,000,000 in First National (TIME, Feb. 20, 27). After the shut-down the Detroit bankers began to scratch barren ground for new capital with which to reopen Guardian National Bank and First National. Finally the bankers betook themselves humbly out to Dearborn and asked for a conference with the one man who could save their city and State...