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...Lincoln can follow the example set last year by Captain Eddie Loughlin in setting down the Elis 3-2, Harvard will cinch second place in Eastern competition regardless of how the Bulldog and Tiger make out against each other tomorrow...
...gave you an uneven number. Speedometers register only in tenths of a mile; so you forget the numbers after the decimal point and multiply again by 1,010 for the key number. From there on it's a cinch. All you have to do is to add or subtract 101 as many times as you want and put in those totals for entries. It had to come out in one of those units...
...Spokesmen for the University team announced with glee that they expected a much larger haul tonight and the CRIMSON has found out through its own devious sources that Cambridge police are already entering the game since the Yard Cops, chasing the student chariot off University property, makes it a cinch for local flatfoots to pick them up on municipal byways. This makes the already uneven struggle oven more unfair and will eventually end by forcing the poor car-owning student into the greedy toils of the many garage owners about the square...
...friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...great responsibility but a cinch of a job," remarked Ambassador Saito to ship news reporters on the Berengaria. Unlimbering U. S. idioms he learned in 14 years service as consul general in New York and as attache and charge d'affaires in Washington, he asked if he might "swipe" one of the newshawks' cigarets. "My chief purpose in coming he " he announced, "is to drink whiskey with good Americans." So saying, he led the way to the ship's bar. As to the "crisis ahead," Ambassador Saito blandly informed his interviewers : "What has happened can easily...