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Connolly, who had won three games out of four starts and was clearly the ace of the Crimson mound staff, was declared ineligible for intercollegiate competition by an Ivy League committee on April 15 for having "received funds to defray expenses for board and room while participating on a summer baseball team in the League...
...Money to defray the expenses of the Band's Dartmouth excursion will be solicited in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon between the halves, according to acting manager Thomas P. Howard...
...source of irritation is the book question again. Returning veterans are authorized $250 per term, under Public Law 346, to defray costs of tuition, fees, and books. for veterans at Harvard studying under the four course plan, fees and tuition generally necessitate the expenditure of $200 or $215 of the allotted sum, leaving the remainder for the purchase of books. In many courses, however, reading lists are assigned as usual, but the veteran in not required to purchase any books--i.e. is not 'authorized' to receive any from the government educational program. In other courses, instructors "require" only the purchase...
...prove it, he firmly tied down the prices of new washing machines, ironers, and aluminum kitchenware. He told manufacturers of the laundry items that they could charge their dealers 5% over 1942's prices to defray higher manufacturing costs. But, he added, distributors could not pass the increases on to consumers...
...canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with Germany between World Wars...