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Died. Friedrich Bergius, 64, German-born scientist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry (for converting coal into gasoline), an expert on ersatz foodstuffs which were later used by the Nazi war machine (he succeeded in making sugar out of sawdust); of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...varsity unfortunately was not meeting with any great degree of success in halting the ersatz Yales, though much of their difficulty stemmed from the newness of the defense formations...
...honest opinion that the Toronto [Jewish Congress] handled this "ersatz" problem in a most dignified and rational manner. All persons involved should be congratulated...
Henry Lamar and some 15 of his almost fearless Freshmen took over from where the eleven ersatz Lions left off. Against the yearlings, Valpey polished up the intricacies of his single wing offense with the first four teams and met with considerable success. Only fumbles caused by almost total darkness slowed the Varsity attack...
Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky...