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...foot ceiling (when often two or three whores work a single room in shifts), and because the prostitute who lived there had an ice chest that was a cornucopia of beer. Her proudest possessions were the kerosene lamp on the table in the front room and the stack of fourteen bars of soap beside it. Raised as I was on Right Guard, Dial, and Johnson's Baby Shampoo, it was hard to get excited about soap. But as a material good, it has its advantages: it's solid to the touch, fits right in your hand, and smells nice. Soap...
...gentleman once said. 'Eat 'em!'," said the notice accompanying the bag of chocolate kisses in Weld boathouse last Saturday morning. It did not refer to the kisses themselves, though. Instead, the notice was aimed at the fourteen women's crews which went to the line last Sunday in an attempt to depose Radcliffe's heavyweight eight as the premier women's crew in the East...
Having fallen behind before they were even warmed up, the Crimson managed to trade baskets for the next four minutes. Doc Hines hit a jumper with nearly fourteen minutes remaining, making the score Penn 56, Harvard 45, and although this basket would provide the impetus for an incredible show put on by Hines in the game's concluding moments. It represented the beginning of the end for the Crimson...
...fourteen point scoring blitz in the waning moments of the game lifted Harvard to an 80-77 victory over Columbia Saturday and completed a two-game road sweep. The Crimson handily defeated Cornell 80-67 in Ithaca on Friday night...
During the war years, Lippmann left journalism briefly to serve as a member of "the Inquiry," a clandestine group of theorists charged by President Wilson with drawing up terms of an acceptable peace. The young adviser helped formulate Wilson's Fourteen Points and prepared a commentary on the peace terms to clarify them for the Allies. But Lippmann was disillusioned by the Versailles Treaty, believing that the conditions it imposed would inexorably lead to another war. He returned briefly to the New Republic, and then in 1921 signed on as an editorial writer for Joseph Pulitzer...