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...would be another of a number of major Republican bills on their way to the White House. Harry Truman's period of sitting back was almost over. The damp babies were being handed back...
...have known better. No new Congress could turn out legislation the way Taft and others had indicated that the 80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with the air of a man who has just passed a damp baby to someone else. Congress had had to wrestle with a full-scale reorganization (under the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act); changing a lot of old customs took time. All legislation had to be worried over by committees. That also took time...
Winthrop's league-leading intramural baseball team will take on Leverett this afternoon at Soldiers Field. Postponed yesterday because of damp grounds, this contest offers the Bunnies an opportunity to topple the Puritans from first place and move into a tie with Eliot and Kirkland for the number one slot...
...Name the Baby Joe." Catholic nuns in black and starched white waited at rough, wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp (carbon dioxide) which had rolled out of old side entries opened by the blast. But it was worse farther on. Crews working near the blast had been burned, riddled with flying coal, and squeezed by concussion until their chests caved in and their tongues protruded...
After two weeks practice on the low, fast-bouncing surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building, the slow, damp clay at Annapolis throw the Crimson just enough off balance to drop the decision by one match. The next day at West Point, rain forced the contest onto the fast indoor cement courts, aging throwing the Varsity off-balance to the tune of a 6-3 defeat...