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...taken two months and eight games, but Saturday at Soldiers Field the Varsity football team stopped playing like eleven individuals and started working together like a bulldozer. Showing line-play, crisp tackling, and an offense, the Crimson blasted to the traditional win over Brown and thereby served notice that Yale, would have no picnic in the Bowl, come Saturday...
...congressional attitude toward any European objections to U.S. interference in Europe's internal affairs was summed up succinctly in the crisp statement of an influential Democratic Senator: "Let them eat sovereignty then, instead of our dollars, if that's the way they feel about it." Europe would have to be saved on U.S. terms...
...activity among the rolling hills of Grindstone Island, one of the "Misty Magdalens" which lie athwart the Gulf of St. Lawrence steamer lanes. In one spot the scrubby balsam firs had been cleared and a power shovel scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves...
...currency.* That was the heritage of bankruptcy and economic dependence on the U.S. Now the Dominican Republic is strong, its external debt paid off (since July), its internal debt minuscule. Last week, Dominican banks started taking in time-worn green-inked engravings of Washington and Lincoln, replacing them with crisp Dominican peso notes bearing the likeness of local heroes...
...Bracht counted in thousands the "international marriages" she had arranged. Said she: "The cream of German life-writers, scientists, actors, professional people from every walk of life-want to marry foreign girls." Marriage was a way of escaping Germany's chilly ruins. One of Frau Bracht's crisp slogans put it simply: "Marry and Emigrate...