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...creation of these full-blooded, uncomfortable people is nowhere more penetrating than in his account of the Queen's noble and terrible last days, during which George Augustus attended her with great devotion and once observed in his old bullying tones that she "resembled a calf that had just had its throat...
...spang into tall, grim-mouthed Edward Ellis, as happens when Gangster Marco (Harold Huber) goes a-rusticating. But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love...
...economy which the Student Council Committee on Board may recommend would calf for more student waiters. Unlike the Union, the Houses have never employed many students in the dining halls; for the University felt that they would interfere with the attempt to create a clubby House atmosphere...
...enter, the pool officially, and from 3 o'clock to 4:30 daily, exclusive of morning workouts, the boys wave their arms at the bottom of the bath. A typical session might consist of the following: to being with, a little kicking with the board to limber up the calf and thigh muscles; then, Coach Ulen will inform you to "swim ten laps at three-quarter speed." That usually means 250 yards about us fast as you can go, because five other follows who also want to make the varsity will be swimming with...
Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped...