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...dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish. They stayed that way for quarter of a mile until Coxswain Bissell called for a Harvard stroke of 37. He held it for six beats, turned his head to make sure that Yale...
BENGAL MUTINY-George Danger-field-Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep...
...There should be no fear at any deserving American fireside that starvation or cold will creep within their doors this winter. . . .† The general health of the people is at a higher level today than ever before. . . . There have been less strikes than even in normal times. . . . I finally secured the passage of the [Home Loan Bank] bill. ... I have practically prohibited all immigration. . . . We have fought a great battle to maintain the stability of the American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment...
...months ago the Shanghai China Forum, radical weekly, made a survey, announced that Chinese Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze. They have eight major armies totalling 151,000 well-drilled men, of whom over half are equipped with rifles. Week by week the Communists creep in a constricting ring closer & closer to the former "Chicago of China," stagnating Hankow. Last week they were reported only 17 miles away...
George Washington, as can be ascertained from a perusal of his innumerable life portraits and their copies, was a man of many moods and faces.? Doubtless the Washington of the Peale portraits would have allowed a proud smile to creep across his bland countenance had he learned of all these incongruously complimentary doings in his behalf. The Gilbert Stuart Washington, however, is a more skeptical and pessimistic personage. Like those of Calvin Coolidge, his nostrils seem assailed by perpetually disagreeable odors. The Washington nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell...