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...Moscow, a big construction is going up. There are the usual difficulties: living quarters are overcrowded, uncomfortable, dirty; food is scanty and not too good; the water supply is whimsical. But when news comes that a rival construction at Kharkov has broken the record for concrete pouring, shock-brigaders gird up their dirty loins, beg permission to have a try at the record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having...
...disappeared last night while in process of prognosticating stop believe him kidnapped in connection with Lampoon-H.A.A. feud stop all predictions but Harvard-Army encounter found on desk of Reverend Sire stop In Casey returns shall wire you stop all I can say now is that Army will gird on its sword and Buckler stop it should be a Burlingame stop following are scores left by honored father: Brown 13 Syracuse 0 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 6 Yale 7 Georgia 6 Columbia 13 Navy 7 Fordham 7 N.Y.U. 7 Michigan State 23 Carnegie Tech 12 Oregon 7 Oregon State...
Into busy TIME office last week stamped baldpated, hooknosed, bewhiskered Ghost Peter. No wearer of rings, there hung from his gird loins the Fisherman's Keys. Crashing through...
...misty, rain-driven darkness settled over Soldiers Field last night, eleven CRIMSON iron men wound up their last grueling practice session. This afternoon at 4 o'clock in some far corner of Soldiers Field, the CRIMSON will gird up its ink-stained Joins and go forth to do battle with the red-skinned, scalp-mad fury of the Daily Dartmouth...
...advocate levying sufficient taxes to balance the budget. It means nothing to the United States whether I remain in Congress or not but it means much to the United States Government that its honor, its credit, its security be maintained at par. ... I want you and the country to gird yourselves with stamina, with backbone and with courage to meet this emergency. All must make tremendous sacrifices. For the budget must be balanced either through a manufacturers' sale tax or excise taxes on commodities and industries. . . . It is very easy to say 'soak the rich...