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Author Ford Madox Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 M.I.T. 1936 Comfor, Littman, Saxton, l.f. r.f., Thornton, Kalmar, Garth, Canning Ernst, Greeley, r.f. l.f., Garth, Thornton Silsby, Sherwood, c. c., Bandomer Smith, Gibbs, l.g. r.g., Du Pont Grady, Knapp, feibleman, r.g. l.g., Morgan...
...Stringham, a realtor, during the harvest time of 1931 when city laborers needed food but had no money to buy it and farmers needed hands but had no money to pay them. The laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce and goods exchange. There are branches in Ogden, Brigham. Logan, Lehi, American Fork. Price and Delta, Utah. Idaho branches are located at Preston, Montpelier, Rexburg, Ridgedale. There is another...
...Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...
Scores-Harvard 20, Princeton 43; Harvard 25, Yale 38; and Yale 27, Princeton 29. Time-24.30. Winner-Bonthron (P), Arthur Foote '33, Turley (Y), A. S. Pier, Jr, 35. Minor (Y), Canning (Y), J.S.Hayes '33, J. P. Scheu '35, C. F. Woodward '35, Walker (P), Morris (P), E. F. Bowditch '35, James Parton '34, J. M. Estabrook '34, T. A. Robinson '34, Hershey (Y), Spruance (P), Foedisch (P), J. G. Miller (P), Tracy (Y), Hill (R), Hamilton (Y), Gardiner (Y), J. W. Higgins '34, Watson (Y), Flanagan (P), Walsh (P), Mcllinger (P), Prentice (Y), H. R. Miller...