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Both Munro and Guyda expressed delight that there is such enthusiasm on the two squads. They both agree that the added practice will be a great boon to next fall's varsity. Munro feels that although past teams have not been greatly hurt by the lack of spring practice, they have been at a disadvantage when they played teams like Yale who have a regular spring practice...
...proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic of Lawrence of Arabia...
...prove that children recognize words by visible "clues." For example, said Gates, the "tail" (or y) at the end of the word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...
...dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between the musical selections on its cylinders, forcing the listener who bought the Chirp, Chirp polka to endure a sales pitch for men's overcoats. Columbia, also in those early days, considered the phonograph to be a potential boon to the illiterate. Instead of giving themselves away in writing, suggested Columbia, people could record their messages on a cylinder and ship it through the mails, thus avoiding "disclosure of their educational defects...
...dust gatherer is a bother to the housewife, but it is a boon to the scientist. By sending rockets into space to trap meteoric dust, scientists hope to learn some of the secrets of the great void beyond the earth's atmosphere. Last week they were evaluating the catch of the best dust gatherer yet developed: an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket, which unfolds its nose toward the top of its climb and spreads out eight graceful petals into space like a great mechanical flower...