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...Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with an Indian named Chief Cariboo whom Baer knocked out in two rounds. After 19 easy victories, Baer fought Frankie Campbell...
Traveling down the long black road on the Annalist's commodity price index, the statistical wayfarer comes to a fork in April 1933. The left fork leads sharply up the rise which followed abandonment of gold. The right fork, which looks like a half-forgotten detour on the price map, is an index in terms of old gold dollars. This index shows that as a group hogs, corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index...
Boorstin came to Harvard from Tulsa Central High School and distinguished himself during his Freshman year by winning the Coolidge prize as the best debater in the Freshman trials for the triangular debates and receiving a Detour. In the next year he won the Barrette Wendell Prize in History and Literature, and received an honorary John Harvard Scholarship. Last year he was elected in the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa, and he became first marshall of the Society. Last fall he was one of the three Harvard men awarded Rhodes scholarships. He has been a member of the University...
...means to those living in Leverett, or Adams, or Dunster, or Lowell, or indeed in any of the buildings which happens to be located in the wrong place, has never been considered. Now that the library is open in the evenings to habitants of those houses must take a detour of about six blocks to reach the welcoming doors of Widener. This obstacle seemingly miner, but in times of haste, or low temperatures, sufficiently annoying remains in the path to knowledge in order that the Yard may be protected from marauders and that Freshmen in Wigglesworth Halls may sleep undisturbed...
Students driving down Peabody Street into Harvard Square will be compelled to make a detour around the street car incline, if a plan recently submitted to Mayor Russell is approved by the City Council. The proposed plan, which was drawn up by the Governor's committee on street and highway safety, calls for the installation of a rotary traffic system around the incline so that all traffic will proceed to the right. If the recommendations are carried out the number of accidents in the Square is expected to be greatly decreased...