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...previous season, however, was a different story. Undaunted by losses to the Staten Island Cricket Club, a team of Bostonian West Indians, and a loss to Princeton, the Crimson came back to crush Yale in the final match...
...comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...
...against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave such people alive...
...intermission, the young man and his girl got caught in the crush on the way upstairs to the bar-he had never seen so many jewels and furs in his life-and only just managed to get Scotch-and-soda (at $1.00 each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine...
...wing Combat answered by attacking the U.S.: "I would say the stock of the U.S. has never fallen lower, whereas that of France is rising visibly . . . I would say that if Germany has really become so soon a confidential partner, one should not have been so stupid as to crush...